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Cobwebs and cycling
On Jul 23, 4:30*am, (Tom Keats) wrote:
In article , * * * * Tom Sherman °_° writes: Mike A Schwab wrote: There is a bicycle trail in Springfield IL that is very busy during the day. *One evening about 4 years ago I went for a group ride on the trail. *It was a summer evening about 6:10 pm, I am sure a couple of hundred of riders had rode that trail that day. There had been a short, light rainshower just before the starting time, I happened to be least scared of getting wet, so I was the lead rider out. *Perhaps an hour had elapsed since the last rider had come through. *Sure could not tell that by the cobwebs though. *They were thick. *Stretched all the way across the trail, 8 feet from tree to tree. *Did this for at least a mile. That is why you put a front fairing (Zzipper or Mueller) on your 'bent and duck your head down behind it. I still vividly recall once riding through a swarm of baby spiders, wafting in the air on their silken natural hang gliders. *I washed my copious hair multiple times daily for a couple of weeks after that. And then there are those tiny flies, like midges, mayflies and no-see-ums. *You get one in one eye and reflexively blink on it, thereby squashing it into your eye. *As you try to extracate its remains, you get another one in the other eye. *In the words of Dizzy Dean, you are then "blounded." And they like flying just at dusk when it is so beautiful that, even if you aren't gasping air open-mouthed from your exertions, you are singing for the joy of it. And then some gogga gets in your throat. Yech. Even the Japanese wouldn't dip those in chocolate. -- Andre Jute |
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