Ixion - what have you done?

**SlowHand** · 21st October 2005, 23:05

Rode into hendo on me bike about 5.30ish. 5kms of open/shitty road, and rest town stuff.

Bang on wet gear

, and ride up the road and turn right, the back skips half a foot, and its over before I can say fuck. This is the 2nd time its been wet, and I did it on the same spot

Next, on Triangle Rd, coming down the "hill" a car indicates to right ready to cross path, she starts homming in on me, and I freeze and only get to move the bike to the left, while pushing everything with my left and trying to find a horn, the kid in the back seat points and yells "bike", the homicidal bitch stops, car half in my lane, I gather composure and find my hearts in my mouth and seats been sucked up via the sphincter.

One the way back, on the open road again, it feels a bit hairy so I make an effort to be on the gas, and not brake if anything would happen, sure enough, round one corner, back skips a full foot at least, and long enough for me to say FAAAARRRKK.

Now the Ixion part. A dam duck, which I reckon is Indi's pet duck, and has been forced to watch WAY too much Top Gun, decides to do a fly-by past my front wheel, just after another corner, I freeze again and just hear my wheel nick a wing.

Get home, unpluck the seat outa my ass, and jump in the cage to go into town, same spot as the duck, I slow down to see if I did it any damage. Next thing I see is a sparrow flying across the road turns around and aims at my windscreen, just nicked the sucker as well.

These are my assumptions for the crazy bird-life
1. They are Indi's pets and have been patrolling the area for a suitable fly-by target. Not finding one worth while, they pick me with the fear in my eyes
2. Someone, perhaps Ixion, left a half full can of V, and the birds got to it, this is what I reckon happened between them

Duck: check this out, I reckon I can scare that guy over there, and get reeal close to the wheel
Sparrow: pffft, is that all you can do? wait till the next one
5mins later....

Duck: Hey it's the same dude again
Sparrow: watch and learn
Strat: what the?!?
Sparrow: see that? see his facial?
Duck: man, did that hurt?
Sparrow: pffft, not even

3. They are Indi's pets and they have been drinking V while he's out.

whoa! she's one long post!

**Ixion** · 21st October 2005, 23:27

Be thankful you did not encounter the kamakazi bunny. He was the one who gave me the shits. The bird just hurt (actually it is still sore so today when I was over at the factory I asked the nurse they have there about it - good excuse to be prodded by nice bit of crumpet, she reckons I've maybe cracked a rib. it will heal)

Any way the bird just sent me wobbling a bit. But the bunny, I seriously thought I'd had a front wheel blowout. Whole front end shook and lurched around like a mad thing. I think the bunny corpse may have been carried round the wheel a turn or two, making the wheel enormously out of balance, until he got thrown off - before I was thank goodness.

Watch out for them bunnies, they're vicious they are.