From: Lopo
Subject: ha ha ha..silly boys
Ok, so finally a story where the cyclist triumphs over the big truck. Kind of funny. Happened right on main street here in Bozeman. So…there I was…riding along. Light turns red. I stop, of course. I am sittin there waiting for the light to turn green and this blue hillbilly truck (lifted late 70′s ford truck…very loud) pulls up next to me. 3 frat boy lookin guys are in the cab. I glance over at them and they are all starin at me. After a couple revs of their engine and a few more quick glances…I choose to ignore them…light turns green and they hit the gas hard and swerve less than 2 feet in front of me. Thank whoever that I didn’t start pedaling yet…gave me that weird feeling of sick tickle-y feeling in my stomach……but alas, a split second later…What do i hear? Right after they do the swift swerve in front of me but a loud BANG comes from their truck and something falls from the bottom and hits the ground making the truck slowly move to a halt. They managed to pull the truck to a parking spot…where the truck stayed and all 3 boys got out to see what happened underneath the truck. By this time I had started riding and had decided to stop a little up the road to watch them in their predicament. After about a minute the driver starts kicking his truck and one of the other guys gets on the phone….
I didn’t stay to watch any longer but i feel happy that they screwed their truck in harassment to a cyclist….hopefully they learned something…
And now I can sleep tonight. Thanks, Lopo.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Right the fuck on man.
These stories always make me smile.
-Al
September 6th, 2007 at 3:10 am
cool…
September 6th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Big tires, old truck, hard accelleration = blowing the drive shaft off! Karma, baby!
September 6th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Nah, not karma, just an increased driveshaft angle, & thus U joint wear rate, from being lifted. Get down with the materialistic random chance.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:48 am
…and natural selection.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:00 am
The only thing that could have sweetened this story is if the local deputy was watching the whole thing and flipped on his lights when he saw the reckless driving. A citation and a repair bill. THAT’S karma!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:40 am
There’s nothing like a little instant feedback to help someone understand the error of their ways.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
…while i totally love the instant karmic justice doled out here, the unfortunate aspect is that, ” hopefully they learned something “, translates to,” this happened cuz a that fuckin’ cyclist !”…
…any brain small enough to find sport in using a truck to play games w/ a cyclist isn’t gonna “get” anything…