Hooboy, only once and it was quite a strange instance. It was 10 years ago in college, I had gotten home from an evening run that was very hot and warranted tossing my shirt along the bike path (still not sure why I did that). I decided to ride back on my beater to retrieve my shirt but at this point it was dark, I didn't have lights, I had no shirt on, and was wearing short shorts.
I get to where I tossed my shirt and a cop comes barreling onto the side of the bike path/sidewalk and nearly hits me; No sirens, but using the 1000 lux flashlight right into my eyes. He gives me the speal of riding at night without lights (after asking what the hell I was doing) and saying "I'm not sure where you are from, but that's not how we do things around here," but luckily did not issue me a ticket. Anywho, I grab my shirt and walk about a mile home in the dark. I haven't tossed a shirt on a run since... Collin in Sacramento On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 4:43:23 PM UTC-7 Joel wrote: > I was out today riding one of my usual routes. I had just gotten back on > the bike (my Bleriot) after stopping to adjust the angle of my Albatross > bars. I was pedaling and all of a sudden out of my mirror I saw some lights > flashing and I pulled over. I got off the bike as a very young officer > walked over to me. I asked him if I had done something wrong, maybe riding > to fast (yeah I know being a wiseass is not really a good things). He asked > me if I had just come from a street which was one I was actually heading > towards.. I told him no and explained where I had ridden. It seems some guy > asked a lady for directions, there mush have been more to it, he was on a > bike, and I fit the description I was told. I was wearing a short sleeve > gray sweat shirts as it was an unusually chilly day today and a Rivendell > cycling cap from years ago. Another officer arrived smiling, he was the > officer in charge. I put up my hands and said it wasn't me and he started > to laugh.He explained to me they were looking for a guy in a gray members > only jacket and a baseball cap with dark hair, my hair is silver/white. > > We talked for a few minutes, they apologized and I said no need. I went > back on my ride and now was on that street wondering if a woman would come > out of her house chasing me. > > In a way I had a good laugh but I wonder what this guy did to make this > woman call the police. This was not my town but 2 towns away in CT while I > live in MA. So something was up. > > So I wonder if any of you have ever been pulled over on your bike? > > Joel > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/906e552f-c6eb-4099-b4e0-bbc52880f7acn%40googlegroups.com.
