Odd things you eventually figure out...

[crazycanuck]

One afternoon a few weeks ago I noticed some strange marks on my hands & thought.."those are odd bruises". Thought nothing of them & hoped they'd go away.

Umm..the other day I realized what these "odd bruises" actually were/are

A tan from my cycling gloves- What's even more amazing is that it wasn't even that sunny over the cooler season..

Do tell me your "I figured it out eventually" cycling story

[Trekhawk]

Snort!
I had those little shapes on the back of my hands last summer. LOL I thought mine were hard to remove dirt from gardening and spent ages scrubbing them in the shower before the penny dropped.

[WindingRoad]

Get this! I STILL have little triangles along the edges of my feet from my Keen cycling sandals from LAST YEAR! What the deuce!

[Geonz]

Yesterday I figured out why our school entrance gives the right of way to the left turners coming into the school. Left turn more important than straight? At the noon class change traffic backs up on the main road... so this reduces the cars getting out onto it and increases the flow off those roads into campus. I'd figured there was a reason but watching the snarls made it clear. (Made me glad to be on my bike, too, so I could cut through campus.)

[papaver]

A friend of mine just recently moved to a new apartment. After a few days she called me in the middle of the night, telling me she had a poltergeist.

The day after she heard again banging noises against the wall... those noises came back every night. She finally called someone ... how do you call it... a psychic/clairvoyant??????.... to chase away the poltergeist.

The man came to her home and after 15 mins or so the banging noise started. The man almost immediately started laughing. And he just said: your 'poltergeist' has a very healthy sexlife it seems.

Not very on topic, but still a funny story.

[Biciclista]

Don't let the cute little cherry tree grow that is on your fence line. It will become a huge tree with a giant trunk and an immense canopy that covers your neighbor's garden and costs a fortune to remove.

(sigh)


Papaver, that was funny.

CC, DH has funny callouses on his hands from RIDING!

[Zen]

Get this! I STILL have little triangles along the edges of my feet from my Keen cycling sandals from LAST YEAR! What the deuce!

I have those too.
I call them 'tiger stripes'

[GLC1968]

I tend to wear a lot of white t-shirts to work either under jackets, vests, etc, so I have quite a few. All of a sudden, about mid-summer, I started noticing that all of my white t's were getting these weird stains down the front or the back of them. The patterns were the same, but it wasn't always in the same place. I didn't notice it until they came out of the wash, so I was ready to blame the wash (and I started wearing colored t's).

Just last night as I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep, I was going over all the things in my bag for my ride after work today. We go for sushi (or some other food) right after riding, so I always want to make sure I have something somewhat suitable to wear. Baseball hat? Check. Non-cycling shoes? Check. Towel to wipe off my face? Nah...I'll just use my t-shirt again.... LIGHTBULB !!

Holy cow...I have been ruining my white t-shirts by using them to wipe the sweat off my face after riding. I wear a light mineral makeup to work and apparently when you mix it with sweat, it stains cotton. Duh! Mystery solved!!

[redrhodie]

I've had this ongoing neck pain for a couple of years that I kind of thought (but wouldn't admit) was from cycling. It's pretty much a constant part of my life, and I have learned to live with it until I can't bear it, then I see my chiropractor.

Well, I realized yesterday that I haven't had the pain at all for more than a week. The only thing that's changed is my local grocery store, that I walk to almost daily, has been closed for renovations for the past 10 days. Ah hah! Not cycling pain, but carrying groceries!

[jp4995]

I was biking uphill the other day (with my husband) and I started to slow down so I shifted to an easier gear. Well it got harder to pedal so I shifted to an easier gear again but kept slowing down. Yep, it took me THREE shifts to realize I was shifting the wrong way- into the harder gears. That hill hurt.

My husband almost fell off his bike he was laughing so hard.

[OakLeaf]

I've been searching for at least two months for a reasonably inexpensive source of flat sheets of 5-6 mm neoprene to cut into pads for under my big toe joints in my running (and other) shoes, for my Morton's foot.

This morning I realized I have probably eight or nine flat sheets of 5-6 mm neoprene laying around the house in storage boxes, shoved in the backs of drawers, etc.

And so do you. Think about it....









in the 20th century we used to call them "mouse pads."

[kenyonchris]

Well, here are two lightbulb moments (not very on topic, but funny)

I was called (I was on the bike...on topic) to a house to investigate a noise at the complainants front door...she stated an "animal or short person" was tapping at her door, over and over. It would stop briefly, then start again. I arrived and asked dispatch to call her and ask her to come to the door so she could claim her cardboard door flier (coupons and such) that was blowing in the evening breeze and tapping on her door.

I can't throw stones, because I was working the football game on the horse and the announcer blared over the PA "AND NOW THE CENTRAL HIGH MASCOT, RICKY THE JAGUAR, TAKES THE FIELD!" ...I am not even kidding, I thought to myself, "well, that's very risky." It took about two seconds before I realized it was, of course, not a REAL jaguar.

And they give me a badge and gun.

[Trekhawk]

I can't throw stones, because I was working the football game on the horse and the announcer blared over the PA "AND NOW THE CENTRAL HIGH MASCOT, RICKY THE JAGUAR, TAKES THE FIELD!" ...I am not even kidding, I thought to myself, "well, that's very risky." It took about two seconds before I realized it was, of course, not a REAL jaguar.

And they give me a badge and gun.

LOL - thanks for the morning laugh!

[tribogota]

thanks kenyon chris, laughed out loud on the jaguars

[lph]

You're a hoot, kenyonchris.

My new front light is the kind with a wire to a separate battery pack. The battery pack attaches to a standard cyclocomputer type mount, supplied on a separate velcro band.

I spent quite some time, getting quite annoyed, trying to figure out where on my handlebars I had room to attach this velcro banded battery pack,what with a short stem and a bell, a spare blinkie, and my (empty) computer bracket which was really in the way.

Until it dawned on me that I could actually... remove ...the velcro band and attach the battery directly into the computer mount... which was sort of the whole point.