What a F*in Morning… Sooo happy to be alive in a sense.
wow
i”M still kinda shaking a bit.. ’cause wtf
Okay here is where its MY fault: Saw a guy in the park on a bike, wasn’t going that fast, so was kepeing up with him (behind him tho), when we got into the panhandle after Golden Gate Park, I lost him a bit. I was trying to play some catch up, w/o going too fast ’cause i’ve realized i used to hit like 22mph in the panhandle pedaling my ass off, and it justs waste my energy for the 2-3 hills i have on my way to work.
Anyway, so i’m trying to catch up to him.. we get to Masonic and there is like.. 10 sec. left before the light turns Yellow (has one of those crosswalk guy/coundtown things), so He gets there.. he gets there and a budweiser delivery truck pulls to make a left (in front of him coming onto Masonic from Fell), and he SLAMS on his brakes.. but then again, he wasn’t going that fast.. so he STOPS…
I don’t really see this, but i see big truck i say “oh shit, big truck” and i slam on both brakes.
Thank GOD they water the panhandle 50 times a day, or MAYBE i woulda stopped in time.. but no, that wasn’t I was going for.. ’cause if it was.. well i’d have no story to tell.
Yes, i did stop.. however my front wheel was like CM away from clipping the truck’s rear, i stopped and had to spin my wheel to the right for it not to hit.. yes, THAT is how close I GOT!!!
Nerves aside, i keep on going pretending no one saw my little incident… I know its my fault on some level, but common that truck SHOULD HAVE stopped, the other biker dude (we’ll call him Jeff). Jeff was in the crosswalk, the budweiser truck had no reason to cut out in front.
So I keep on going.. Jeff didn’t make it across Masonic, he caught up with me on Divisadero and i caught back up with him going from Divisadero to Market… all along Market Jeff was in front of the pack (prolly like 6 road bikes and 1 mountain bike), and even though i was like 2nd or 3rd (yea i’m really gettng up there, no longer in the back! woot woot) some IDIOT decides to jjump out in front of me.
yes, some guy waiting at the bus stop was like “hey i got a funny joke” (in his head)… but the joke was not funny. He jumps out in front of me after I have been standing/accelerating from a red and yells “you are gonna get a speeding ticket! hahahahaha” and i’m like “AAAAAH!” ’cause yea.. hadda slam on my brakes for the second time in 1 morning, again.. lcoking my rear tire ’cause it was still a bit damp… i swerved out of the way and got a nice “what a douche” from another biker who was behind me the whole time..
what a fuckin morning, if was tired before Adrenaline is DEFINETLY helping me now… 9am, only 5 more hours to go.
Gonna be adding like a new approach to road bicycling, I think that hiit is relevant however i think i mix it up a bit too so want to write about it in case road bikers or people who want to lose weight wanna get on a bike, have an idea of what its like.
Till Then
CIAO!
Roy
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