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Monday, June 29, 2009
Beware the bunny
I like rabbits. They’re soft. They’ve got those big old ears and they hop around and you just want to snatch them up and give them a squeeze. There seems to be an abundance of them on the way to Creedmoor. I got to see a few on Sunday morning during the Austin Flyers weekly ride.
Some were on the side of the road, and some had become part of the road (gruesome). And one little guy became part of the ride.
The group that left the Bicycle Sport Shop had split into smaller groups based on speed. According to eyewitness reports, the fastest mini-peleton was cruising down a hill when one of those furry buddies decided he could make it across the road in time. Wrong. He caught the front wheel of one unlucky guy and cause the handlebars to turn quickly. The rider flipped over and landed in a culvert some four or five feet deep. There’s no way he wasn’t dead. Or at the very least seriously injured. But he popped up moments after impact and declared himself OK.
As if riders didn’t have enough to worry about, now we’ve got to be ready for daring rabbits darting across the road. It doesn’t take much to wipe out a guy on a bike. So just a simple warning, if you happen to be riding in in southeast Travis County, beware of the bunny.
