Oh my goodness! It was cold out today! Well, cold for riding with your bare face and hands exposed in the wind. I think it was about 50 degrees. How quick the weather changes. I think our highs today are supposed to be around 70, that's about what I was riding in at 6am about 4 or 5 days ago. Wow!.
So today after taking a couple warm up laps around the neighborhood I head out onto the big 4 lane street I ride up and down. It's a little over a mile from top to bottom. I just go up and down to get some miles in. Well today I turn the corner and there's the street sweeper. I was so excited. I'm sure about now you're thinking really? You're excited about the street sweeper? You have to understand the gutters are a filthy hazardous place to ride a bike. Let's see if I can remember a few things I've seen, and tried to dodge, as I ride up and down this hill. Trash, I guess that goes with out saying, (people throw a lot of trash out) a lot of vegetation from leaves to twigs to branches to little seeds that fall from the trees, accumulate and fly up in your face, there was even a log one day. Yep, a log. Batteries, nuts, bolts, pieces of metal, siding from a house, rocks, (of all sizes) broken glass ( a lot of broken glass) car parts (big and small) critters, (who didn't make it across the road) =(, wood, shoes, etc. It goes on and on.
That's why when I saw the street sweeper I knew that I would be riding in a clean gutter and wouldn't have to look for potential tire popping hazards. A nice smooth ride is what I got and it was beautiful.
Tomorrow it will be littered again, but today it was clean and sparkly.
See ya on the road.
Doug
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