Night Rider
Last night I biked to the little get-together we had on campus. When I left home, at about 5pm it was broad daylight. When I returned, it was midnight and foggy.
I quickly realized that I did not have a light for my bike. I really wanted a light, both to be visible and to be able to see. Fortunately, I was able to keep mostly to well-lit sidewalks and paths.
Riding through the fog rolling over the John Nolen causeway was interesting, but unnerving. The ice still hasn’t melted completely off the lake, so riding past the lake at any time of day, you’ll feel the breeze off the lake be about 10 degrees cooler. At night, this has been turning into fog, and last night it was just streaming westward across the causeway with the wind. Fun, but next time I’d rather have a light with me.
This morning, I rode over the the Machinery Row bike store to pick up a front headlight and a visibility strip for my back. On the way there, there was a slight breeze. On the way back, there was a fairly large wind, and it was pushing the remaining ice around on the lake. The ice is about as thick as plate-glass at this point, and where two sheets met, the ice was piling up in mounds of shards, tinkling musically as it crushed.
Oh, and… for someone who hasn’t really biked for a few years, these past two days have been pretty active, which means that I’m pretty sore right now. Only way to get past that is to keep at it though.
N. V. T. S. --- NUTS
That’s what you are.
Perhaps suicidal, even.
He failed to mention the bit about riding through Brittingham Park at midnight, in the fog, with no lights and a brand new laptop in his bag.
Did the bag say "LAPTOP INSIDE!!!"?
1. Riding at night with no lights is more of a hazzard for you running into curbs or cars running into you, not…
2. Carrying a new laptop in your bag, as opposed to a smelly pastrami and saurkraut sandwich, isn’t going to make you a more likely target for a mugging. Especially if you aren’t attracting attention to yourself with bike lights. You’re the only one who knows what’s in the bag. If you’re going to get robbed it probably wouldn’t be precipitated by what’s in your bag, just a nice bonus for the robber.
Though, I suppose #1 might cause the afore-mentioned accident and ruin your new laptop, would would definetly be more depressing than the sandwich.
The point? Learn to like pastrami and get a desktop computer.