Wednesday June 4 rides

[makbike]

Joined the club for it's evening "mystery ride." The ride captain never supplies a cue sheet and you never know where you might go on this ride. I'm not terrible familiar with the area so I typically follow other riders and always hope they know where the heck they are going. So far so good.

Early into this evening's ride there was a terrible collision of cyclist in the group I was following. Three went down - lots of road rash, cracked helmets, a broken spoke and a deep gash in a shin. It shook everyone up to say the least.

As the evening ride continued small doses of bad karma seemed to follow. At one point we went to cross a busy four lane road. Off in the distance a car could be seen - while attempting to cross the busy road two riders tangled but fortunately neither went down. A big sign!

They say bad things come in threes and this proved to be the case for our group. As we approached a busy, busy intersection a truck passing through the intersection lost its load - large table saw! Everyone successfully avoided the saw in the road! I like most in the group was ready to call it quits. I simply wanted to get back to my car before anything else came at us. What a night. I think I'll swear off the "mystery ride" for awhile.

[Aggie_Ama]

What a night. I think I'll swear off the "mystery ride" for awhile.

Yikes! I think I would avoid the ride for awhile myself. That is a lot of bad luck for one group.

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

It was pretty doggone windy (again) in Tulsa last night too! Our Wednesday Night Ride was a usual lively bunch - all chattering up our Tulsa Tough stories. Good times..

The only scary point of the ride was the downhill on Pogue hill.. I actually had to ride my brakes most of the way down just to keep the rubber side down! The stiff and steady wind was cockeyed off center ..headwind on the downhill. Scary scary white-knuckle stuff.

Other than that, it was a really nice 32 mile jaunt. After my century on Saturday, this seemed sooooo quick! LOL