The past couple of days have gone by very quickly. The big weekend storm never came and all that resulted was a lot of wind on Monday. Coming back north from Parker Dam I was going between 8 and 12 mph the entire 20 miles. After battling the wind I realize that I’m going to be about 15 minutes early to end the ride so I went down towards the lake so I could finish the fourth hour climbing back up to the house. As soon as I got to the bottom of the climb and turned onto the next road I ran over something that stuck onto my front tire. It wasn’t losing air, but I figured I better leave it in there and try to make it without another flat. Unfortunately the wood-colored object dislodged and I quickly had a front flat tire. Rather than stopping to fix it I simply rode it home up the climb. At least the roads are smooth and the climb helped keep the weight off of it… Maybe I shouldn’t have been concerned with getting that last 15 minutes in. I’m not sure what the moral of that one is…
The funniest thing on the roads the past two days had to of been the lady driving her Saturn. I was on Lake Havasu Blvd, which parallels hwy 95 through town. She was approaching a red light but must not have noticed until about 50 yards in front of the intersection. She was probably doing the speed limit of 55 when she locked up the brakes. In a huge noise of squeal she came to a stop about 10 feet through the intersection. It was the coolest car skid I have ever seen or likely will ever see. Through her black cloud of burnt rubber and embarrassment she quickly put the car in reverse and backed up to her white line. I was stopped at my own red light, just parallel to her laughing the entire time. In hindsight, I was probably fortunate not to have this crazy on the road behind me!
I’m back out there tomorrow for another long one. Until then, -TJ
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