Saving Tempest
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
I had some disappointment the other day, not with Beryl but something that happened on the way home. I stopped to turn in some required paperwork at an agency near home and on the way back found out the hard way that somebody took the six" diameter cover off a water dept. hole in the middle it the intersection at the corner...WHAM.
I only hit it with the front wheel (Tempest's) and while I didn't harm the rim I saw and heard something fly from the handlebars and hit the street.
The crossbar insert! I THINK I can tap the other tab in carefully and them maybe have it partially brazed on the bottom to hide it. But what drug addiction would make people think the recycler on the other side of the border would just take something that says WATER CO. on it?
The reason it flew off is that I had the bag off the handlebars temporarily. That put a real dent in my day for a while, and while the city said I could file a claim if I needed to, really all I could do otherwise is have them report it to the contractor that runs the water dept.
Not the first time I've hit one of those holes either...
I only hit it with the front wheel (Tempest's) and while I didn't harm the rim I saw and heard something fly from the handlebars and hit the street.
The crossbar insert! I THINK I can tap the other tab in carefully and them maybe have it partially brazed on the bottom to hide it. But what drug addiction would make people think the recycler on the other side of the border would just take something that says WATER CO. on it?
The reason it flew off is that I had the bag off the handlebars temporarily. That put a real dent in my day for a while, and while the city said I could file a claim if I needed to, really all I could do otherwise is have them report it to the contractor that runs the water dept.
Not the first time I've hit one of those holes either...