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[QUOTE="Rooster, post: 631791, member: 19605"] Out of lack of better things to do on a friday afternoon, I decided to run the river trail, which is only about ten miles total length, all diversions included. Not a ride i take very often, as it's mostly on the flood plane, no hills and only a couple actual river crossings. It was about 93 degrees, and humid as it gets in Iowa, so the heat index was up around 110F. Nobody had been on the trail for some time, and it was almost completely grown over, but I know the route by heart, and this didn't bother me. In the back of my head, I was kinda curious as to why nobody had been on the trail, as the quadders usually have it well worn. I got my answer about 1 mile in. The area had flooded some 4 weeks earlier, and flood=logs all over the place. I found a nice log!! Endo. Up and over I went, the log was in the weeds and I never even saw it. This was no problem, I jumped back up, picked up my bike, grabbed the start lever, and hit the magic button................and ran out of battery in a matter of seconds. (Still don't know why the battery died) Okay, we'll sit here for a minute, and then commence kicking.....NOT!! I was immediately engulfed in a swarm of mosquitos that made Custers last stand look like a third grade snowball fight. I kicked myself into a mild frenzy, dripping with sweat and starting to have flashbacks of the heat down in St. Joe state park with Eddie and Lou over the weekend of July 4. The bike finally caught and off I went, WFO towards a grassy opening to get away form the blood sucking denizens of the Skunk River. Now, mind you, the whole log thing is a distant memory at this time as I have begun to focus on the bajillion skeeter bites, West Nile and getting back to where I had unloaded. Have you guessed it? Yes, I hit that same dang log.....[I]again[/I]....and up and over I went. And the bike died, and the battery was, of course, still dead, but I was fortunate enough to get the thing started before I got dizzy from the blood loss to the second wave of attacking skeeters. Back to the pickup I went, loaded up and went in search of some liquid pain killer. AmI stooooopid or what? LOL [/QUOTE]
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