Go Chris!!!! Gotta love it. Don't piss us off or we are comin' after you.
If anyone has any info whatsoever on this silver BMW, please let us know.
I'd love to see someone pay for this.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <[email protected]>
To: "North Raleigh Cyclists (Gyros)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 8:32 AM
Subject: [Gyros: 15493] Re: Tuesday ride report...
If anyone is able to identify the folks who apread the tacks, it would
be my pleasure to sue them for free for (a) the $50 or so in tubes and
CO2 expended by 4 of us and (b) a few thousand dollars in punitive
damages, and donate the proceeds of the lawsuit to the Gyros. I'm not
happy to have missed the ride with a flat, but we're lucky that none
of us were blasting down Kemp at 35 miles an hour and did a Jens Voigt
face plant from a sudden flat. I almost crashed on 98 when I made the
turn and realized my front tire was nearly flat when it almost came
off the rim.
On May 26, 8:16 am, <[email protected]> wrote:
I need to clarify something. When I mentioned in my post on Monday that I
was hoping that some riders would go out on the "attack", some of you took
this literally and when out on "a-tack". (See, Steve and Donna...I can
play the pun game with the best of them...)
Based on feedback from Ty, Mark and Tom, and, after talking to Chris
someone did actually dumb, oops, I mean dump (pardon the parapraxia) a box
of tacks onto the street at what I believe was Coley and Kemp. It appears
to have been an intentional act.
Just as the cameras now turn away whenever some fan decides to run naked
around the ballpark on a nationally televised sporting event, I am not
going to dignify this person's action with a reaction of my own beyond
these few words: They would like nothing better than to know that their
action had it's intended effect: creating misery for others, i.e.
cyclists. We handled this, and, we can handle anything else that these
misguided individuals throw our way. We are cyclists, damn it!! We handle
adversity and we enjoy pain; in fact, we seek it out! Any sane person on a
bike would avoid mountains. We travel hours seeking them out. Why? Why
else...to suffer.
A few tacks in the road? Come on...is that all you got?
Ok. On with the report.
I arrived late yesterday so I timed my ride to catch the group coming up
the Doc. As they approached I was certain that it was the lead pack
because I saw Logan at the front dictating the pace, and, I received a
very friendly "hey Rick!" from Keil (you would have thought that he would
have been out of breath!). I also saw Steve, and about 5 others (sorry
guys...you went by too fast).
I kept in the opposite direction to catch the rest of the group, but, that
was it! It looks as though we lost at least 4 riders to mechanicals, and
others might have been influenced by the threat of rain.
I did catch Logan in the parking lot and he stated that they averaged
22.5. This ride had quality over quantity since it had some of our very
best riders. These guys can ride with any group in the area and hold their
own.
Stay safe out there, and, please keep in mind that we change the finishing
stretch next week. Instead of turning onto Olive Branch we will head to
Kemp; right on Coley; and left on Carpenter Pd. to the Grove. Only the
select few will be in the front group next week!
Rick
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