So I am just biking along, what was to be a 3 hour ride at a low hart rate, and here come these two dogs running out on the road. I don't think too much of it since this has happened before, but this time one of the dogs acutally snaps. Misses my leg and gets the rear wheel, and breaks a spoke.
The owners (the property looks like a scene from "deliverance") do not feel any compunction to ask if I am ok, let alone offer to pay for the wheel repair. The police arrives after an hour fifteen and they are in no position to do anything according to North Carolina / Meckenburg county law. So even if the dog owner had fessed up that her dogs chased me (instead she denied any involvement of her critters and philosophized that I must have had to hit a pot hole) the only violation would be a leash law one.
I hope that they can true my wheel and re-use my brand new tubular.
Well at least I go 45 minutes in and for you riders who do the Latta bike loop be aware of the house from "deliverance" , it's just north of Sample Road where the white fence on left ends.
**** Note to self: Henk needs to buy pepper spray ****
Alex Jonker
The owners (the property looks like a scene from "deliverance") do not feel any compunction to ask if I am ok, let alone offer to pay for the wheel repair. The police arrives after an hour fifteen and they are in no position to do anything according to North Carolina / Meckenburg county law. So even if the dog owner had fessed up that her dogs chased me (instead she denied any involvement of her critters and philosophized that I must have had to hit a pot hole) the only violation would be a leash law one.
I hope that they can true my wheel and re-use my brand new tubular.
Well at least I go 45 minutes in and for you riders who do the Latta bike loop be aware of the house from "deliverance" , it's just north of Sample Road where the white fence on left ends.
**** Note to self: Henk needs to buy pepper spray ****
Alex Jonker