Yesterday at work one of my co-workers told me a story that explains one of the many reasons why I enjoy mountain biking ten fold compared to road biking. He was riding a remote road in New Boston on his road bike enjoying a mid-afternoon ride when he herd a car pull up next to him. The car was driving to close to him that he didn't have any room to movie closer to the shoulder (keep in mind there were no cars on the other side of the road nor were there any visible oncoming cars). The car then sped up and placed its rear bumper less than a foot away from his front wheel, now at this point they are headed down a hill and starting to pick up speed. Sean could hardly see he road ahead of him so he had to focus on the road directly in front of his wheel. Suddenly he hits a large pot hole in the road, flips over his handle bars and lands in the ditch in the side of the road. The car didn't even stop to see if he was alright, it just drove away. Sean was lucky that he didn't get hurt or damage his bike.
Its sad that people do these types of things, Sean wasn't bothering anyone why couldn't the people in the car drive past and do the same? When I go out mountain biking one of the things that I enjoy the most is being in the woods, no one around, no noises of the city and no worries of cars driving past and trying to run me off the road.
I can't wait for the the warm weather to come back so I can get back out on the saddle!
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