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Monday, July 25, 2005
So Friday the Salsa crew shuts it done early to get a nice group ride in at Wirth Park, northwest of downtown Minneapolis. Once we're all there, we climb on our various Salsa steeds and start hammering the trails. I was on a Dos Niner for the first time since some of the initial prototypes and despite how it might look bad for me to start praising one of our products, I've got to say that the Dos Niner really, really rocks. For those not in the area, Wirth is pretty tight. It is one of those places that once you get it dialed you can really rip but a newbee might feel a bit constrained. As it is tight, you'd expect a 29'er like the Dos to be a bit unwieldy at times. Not so! That bike feels like a little bike, is super fast, and climbs like no tomorrow. The back end hooks up in a mad way. The only thing that I found harder to do was catch air. The bigger wheels either just aren't into it or throw off my timing. I think it is probably the latter. Anyway, enough of me talking about how good the Dos Niner is. Here is the entertaining part of the story. So we've ridden three laps and pull out to the parking lot to refill water bottles. When we get there, two squad cars have a van boxed in and they are searching the guys in the vehicle one at a time. We're watching and when the officer starts checking one guy he bolts. She grabs his t-shirt but he twists out of it really quick and is off running. The other officer takes off after him shouting "Stop. I am going to taze you. I'm going to taze you!". This has got our attention big time now! He shoots his tazer but misses! They are running across the golf course now and the bad guy is distancing the cop. We can hear him shouting in his radio and the officer back by us has the other guys sitting in the van with their hands showing. Well the bad boy must have been a sprinter and not a distance man. After a few minutes the officer in pursuit comes back and he's got the bad guy in cuffs. Here's my friendly advice to the gang banging criminal set: Wear a belt fools! You can't run with your pants halfway down your legs! Repeat after me. Form FOLLOWS Function! FOLLOWS! Get it?!? Anyway, a bunch of Golden Valleys finest had pulled in at this point and the situation was all under control. We'd been throw off our stride at this point and called the ride portion of the day and went and got our grubbin' on. Mmmm. Pizza. Wings. Beers. Too bad that guy missed with the tazer though... -Kid Posted by Salsa Kid : 6:40 PM 0 comments | permalink  |
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