I'm taking my MB to work this week (first time in 5 years). I get off at 430pm instead of 6pm. That should be enough daylight to reach home before dark. Sunset's getting later.
So I do a dry run to work today, about 12 miles round trip. Past the homeless old man with his 4 pitbulls on the bike path. Past 4 kids on their bicycles in the middle of the single-lane road in the ghetto.
I reach my workplace and double back, past the 4 kids. They're waiting for me in the middle of the road. One jumps onto his goped with friction-drive and Chinese engine(maybe Chi-tsu, not 460). I hear the high-rpm clutch screaming. He follows me but turns back, never catches up at 25mph.
I guess they wanted me to turn around and race.
I kept going at 25mph.
Then I pass the jail and have an interesting conversation with some prisoners on work furlough. But that's another story.
So, has anyone gotten "called out" while riding their motorized bicycle?
So I do a dry run to work today, about 12 miles round trip. Past the homeless old man with his 4 pitbulls on the bike path. Past 4 kids on their bicycles in the middle of the single-lane road in the ghetto.
I reach my workplace and double back, past the 4 kids. They're waiting for me in the middle of the road. One jumps onto his goped with friction-drive and Chinese engine(maybe Chi-tsu, not 460). I hear the high-rpm clutch screaming. He follows me but turns back, never catches up at 25mph.
I guess they wanted me to turn around and race.
I kept going at 25mph.
Then I pass the jail and have an interesting conversation with some prisoners on work furlough. But that's another story.
So, has anyone gotten "called out" while riding their motorized bicycle?