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eric vance walton
September 2009 
My Great Biking Adventure - Adam Sandler-Style
Posted on Jun 7th, 2009
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Eric
Eric
I rode my bike to work for the first time this season a few days ago. It was an ideal day. The weather was perfect, in the low 70's and the sun was shining brightly.
I work in the downtown area, which means that you have to be both alert and agile on the bike at all times because you never quite know what challenges you will be presented with.
After a long and taxing day of work I jumped on my modified moutain bike to speed out of downtown. I rode up the sidewalk to take advantage of a short-cut between two buildings when I suddenly realized that up ahead people were walking side-by-side and blocking my path. As I jumped off of the sidewalk it felt as though I was riding in two inches of grease! What I didn't notice was they just had planted grass seed where I rode off and my tires sank about an inch into the mud.
Luckily, after putting deep ruts in the ground, I was able to keep my balance and get out of the quicksand-like trap. That's when things got really interesting. After a few seconds I saw that my knobby mountain bike tires were caked in a thick black mud and, to my dismay, they were flinging it on everything within a 12-15' radius. Cars and business people included.
This continued for what felt like and eternity. In hindsight, I realize that the proper thing to do would have been to get off of the bike and walk it but I was way too embarrassed to think about doing that in the heat of the moment. So I put my head down and pedaled as fast as I could as my tires continued to rain mud. It was like a scene straight out of an Adam Sandler movie.
When downtown, now I feel like a marked man and hope I haven't aquired too much bad bike karma through this whole incident. I've given some thought to spray painting my bike a different color. Maybe next week I'll purchase dry cleaning gift certificates and hand them out randomly to people along my route to try to balance things out.
In any event for the next few weeks anyway I will have to steer clear of that shortcut and I will certainly pay much closer attention to freshly planted grass.
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