It must have been a little overcast this morning because it was definitely darker than usual when I rode out to meet the 6:15 group. After yesterday's quiet ride with just Joe and myself, I was expecting to see a fairly large group today. I guess we rolled out with ten or so, which qualifies as "fairly large" for this ride, and as usual we were just spinning at first as everyone got caught up. We hadn't gone more than a mile and were just coming together into a paceline when someone announced, "Walker up!" to which someone else added, "and it's that Crazy Guy." So as we approach the Crazy Guy he moves over so that he's right up against the centerline. (One has to wonder how he drives.) Anyway as the group comes up on him I ring my little bell a few times and then I hear Chad say, rather loudly, "Move over!" I mean, this guy has been just asking for it for months with us and it's getting old, not to mention dangerous. So as Chad goes by the guy takes a swing at him. "That's it" was all I heard before the brakes were applied. I rolled past a little bit with a few others, but a bunch of the guys decided it was finally time to deal with this crazy guy, so they all turned around. I was a little too far down the road by the time I turned around to hear exactly what was going on, but from what I saw, Crazy Guy was rather lucky that Rob didn't just let Chad loose on him. I think that when Crazy Guy found himself surrounded by a bunch of irritated riders he probably started thinking he might have bitten off more than he could chew because he was mostly walking backwards from what I could see.
Anyway, that was the day's excitement. I turned around early at the Dip as usual today because I want to make it out to the training race this evening, especially since we're having a little Tour de La meeting afterward.
5 comments:
If it would have been dark and I was wearing an all black kit....I would have killed him. I guess having a group of legal guys made me think twice.
Randy, i got to thank you so much for your blog, not only are you keeping me up to date with LAMBRA racing, which i miss terribly, but now crazy New Orleans levee dwellers. Appreciate it.
randy,
invite the mobile guys over to ride with ya'll....they love dealing with this kind of thing....it normally ends very violently
Evenings are getting worse as well. It's like no one wants to move out of the way. Wonder how many points you get for taking out "crazy peeps"!!?? And, nothing but fishing line with old spark plugs used as weights all over the place. Finally saw a batture fisherman haul in a nice size catfish. All I know I wouldn't be eating those fish!!
Rob's always trying to keep us (his teammates) from doing stupid crap. It's because whenever one of us get's arrested we expect him to get us out of jail. Keeps him pretty busy sometimes.
Adam
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