Humor

well... this is going to make you laugh.. at least it did me , even though it was cool out and i got mildly injured...

anyway... went riding in a new area the other day. Kinda a basic State park... mostly dirt roads. Got there and was warming up. A small group of people where getting ready and started chatting with them. One thing lead to another and they invited me to ride along with them. well I'm not MR Fit and they kinda where so going up a hill they totally smoked me. well got over the hill and I am Mr Crazy so heading down the other side I wizzed past them... crusing around a slight corner in the road I see a BIG mud puddle. well no time to stop so I slow as much as I can. slightly lift the front wheel to avoid totally splashing myself I start blazing through the water. Now you must understand that the road is very well groomed, crushed stone...so I was expecting under the water to be the same I was WRONG!!! under that water, it was like slippery swamp muck. As soon as the rear tire hit the slime It dragged my front end right down into the small lake.. yaa more like a lake than a puddle.. was well over my feet... and I was getting full face splashed, not going slow! well not really sure what happened next, or how it happened the bike went sidways... then hit something under the water that just bounced my tires up into the air... so here I am.. moving along... the bike and I are basicly horizontal I''m looking down and the water saying to myself "oh Crap, I'm getting really wet!" and the other riders come around the corner just in time to see me disappear into the rather large body of water..... I sorta hear gasps from them and yelling... "you OK?"

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1. Zip and unzip your tent flap and sleeping bag repeatedly.
2. Sleep through the beeping of your alarm clock.
3. Open and close car doors in search of, oh, whatever.
4. Forget that the car stereo was cranked when your turned off the car last night and hit the road good and early to head for the trail-BLARE!
5.Turn auto pump on for your air mattress when you arrive at camp in the middle of the night.
6. Head to the bathroom while waiting for the kettle to boil in the morning-what's that loud whistling sound?
7. Accidently bump the car horn while in search of-whatever.
8. Eat burritos chock full of beans before bedding down for the night.

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Once while riding in the early morning, I had quite an adventure.

We have a series of peninsulas as part of a reservoir in our area that are connected with bridges. The bridges are wooden, 2 feet wide with 2x4 borders, and range from 20 to 40 feet long.

This area is where we usually go, but one day a part of the bridge had sunken, so that a small portion of the middle section was at about 45 degrees instead of flat, and a section of the 2x4 border was missing. It had also rained the day before.

I was coming at it fast and figured that I shouldn't lock up the brakes, but rather ride over to the high side, to avoid collapse. Well...

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