Hopping a Sleeping Man
October 11th, 2006
I drove my Trek Madone into the garage over the weekend - ouch… well, my wife was driving but I was in the car, so I take all the blame as I put it there in the first place. Some carbon fiber splintered and my heart fell to the floor. Major bummer.
While I am getting that all in order, I have been riding the cross bike… a fine steel Kelly. Today I left Boulder in the dark at about 5:30 am on a crisp morning and rolled out on some of the bike paths. The cross bike is not as fast as the Madone, but it does allow me to get off the streets and onto some dirt!
I did some Google Map satellite action on Monday and found some really interesting routes w/ lots of off road action form Boulder to Denver… this morning I took one of those routes. It was an insanely fun ride with a fair amount of mud and lots of air time.
But the best part of the ride came right at the end… I was flying down 20th street heading into downtown Denver and saw what looked like a camouflage jacket in the middle of the bike path that dips under an overpass. I was cooking and getting ready to bunny hop this sucker and realized @ the last minute it was some dude crashed out in a camo sleeping bag. I backed off… I shoulda hopped the sleeping man.
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