I'VE NEVER BEEN A REBEL BIKER TYPE: UNTIL TODAY
I got a late start on my day today. I've been cutting down trees and talking to insurance people for three days after the Monday storm, so I treated myself and slept in till 6:30. This got me to the park that I use for cross training around 7:10. In the back of my head, I knew this was pushing it. Yes it is a public park, No there are no signs that say "no bikes allowed". But we all know that this is a grey area. I'm a don't rock the boat kinda guy, and my cross training is a outa sight out of mind program.
Well today a custodian at the connecting school, decided that a bicycle on the city's green grass was a major felony, and called the police. As i'm revving up into my second interval of the day, there are 2 squad cars waiting for me by my truck. The custodian was an old grumpy ass! My goal was too keep my cool, smooth it out, not get a ticket "for what I don't know" and leave to ride another day. I tried to explain that I had been using this park for years and years for training, nobody had ever been the wiser. I stay to the outskirts of the park, and leave little or no track where anyone can see. Most days I have to move crack pipes and used syringes out of my path before starting. When I said this along with my thoughts that I was the only law abiding citizen using the park, the older officer got a tad angry. But before things got out of hand, I did what I always do and said "sorry, won't happen again, you'll never see me riding in the park again".
So this puts me in a major mess. All 3 parks I use are in the same jurisdiction of "officer friendly". Get caught again poaching city grass and he may lock me up. Cross season is fast approaching, and now i'm tasked to finding a new training grounds. I hate soap box standers, and Internet forums that bitch about this and that. But here is my rant and i'll leave it alone. We ride on the roads, and truckers try to push us into corn fields. Ride the bike path and soccer moms with double wide strollers will hip check you to the grass rather than give way a single inch. Now ride in your city park where my tax dollars go to maintain, and get a police escort to the exit. What I want to know after all of this is if I would have went crazy representing the crossers of the world, and went to jail, HOW MANY UPGRADE POINTS WOULD THAT BE GOOD FOR? Ty
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