Sunday, February 10, 2008

White Camaro + New Bike= Hick in in Jail

It's been a little while. I know I have been slacking on this whole blogging thing. Just been real busy. So since my last post alot has happened. We finally got our new bikes, helmets, and shoes. We are all very happy with the new stuff. It took a couple days to really get the bikes dialed in. SRM also came, I am loving the white head and the carbon cranks.

Chris came over to Bloomington this weekend to get all his new stuff. So first day out on his new bike we had a little incident. We are minding our own business riding down old 37 when a white camaro comes blazing past us, not giving us a lot of room. So instead of the usual flipping of the bird, we thought the simple wave would work just fine. Apparently the guy in the camaro did not enjoy our waves. He then decided to stop and throw down a wicked burnout. I guess we were impressed what his POS camaro could do. So we waved again. He then backed into his drive way and waited for us to roll by. We rolled by and he reved his engine and came at us. Chris decided to throw his foot out there and tap his hood. This sent the hill billy over the top and let it loose. He floored it right at us. He lost control of his car and ran into the back of Chris. Brand new bike. Chris is ok. He just got knocked into the grass, rear wheel was trashed but everything else was ok. The guy got out of his car and started yelling at us. He called us all queers and told us that he is sick of us bikers riding on his roads and taking up the road. We then called the cops to make this sucker pay. After waiting a good 30min, the cops showed up. luckily the cop was on our side. The burnout marks on the road did not lie. After filling out papers and taking lots of pictures, our friend in the camaro was handcuffed and taking down to the station. He was going to be arrested for "assault with a deadly weapon". I hope this sucker pays.

That's about all I got for this post. New bike pics will be posted this week.

2 comments:

Luke said...

Scary incident, but a happy ending. Great job getting the police involved. Now be sure to contact the district attorney and keep the pressure up. Get your local bike federation involved. This sounds like our incident on St. Mary's Road, which thanks to pressure from the community resulted in four felony charges.

Ed Kriege said...

not unlike that incident on st. mary's road a spell back. handcuffs & court is the right action. Chicago Bike Racing blog posted your story; I did too on cycling.web.net.

Stay safe.