BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

I hope the people attached to the narrative implied by this photo are all right....

Chances are excellent it's a stolen bike that was dumped there. Like the eleventy-dozen cars sitting in the river that we talked about a few weeks ago.

Or it could be from the guys that where jumping their bikes into the river off a ramp near the Point. I figured on of them might lose a bike eventually.

I'm wondering about the narrative you have in mind, pseudacris.

It would start like this:

"It was a dark and stormy night..."

Nah, it probably started like "Hold my beer, I've got an idea..."

It was a dark and stormy night...

Mike was done fishing and packed up his things and polished off the last IC light. As he prepared to ride away, he realized his headlight batteries were dead. In his drunken stupor, he pedaled right into the river, which had risen to meet the paved shore. Thankfully, an attentive Wooooo Girl noticed and tossed the lifesaving styrofoam donut to him with perfect aim (and without breaking a nail).

.....

shoot, I like @reddan's beginning better.

[edit to add]

This photo kind of deserves its own caption contest.....

The rope being tied around the pedal makes me think they had something in mind like retrieving the bike when/should it crash into the river. But if that were the case I would tie it around the frame, not the pedal. A rope around the pedal would just get in the way.

But definitely, beer was involved.

I think you folks are underestimating the devasting effects of illicit drugs on America's youth.

"Hey, yinz! Watch this!" was probably exclaimed at some point.

"Check this out, I saw this once on Jackass"

That is too funny. I suspect Reddan has the opening correct.

If it have been found on the OTHER bank of the river, I would have blamed it inattentive biking, or ineffective cyclist efforts to avoid being forced riverward by hordes of Steelers fans.....

Oh, i've definitely felt on _both_ sides down there like I was one bad muscle spasm from riding straight into the river...

Just because they found it on one side of the river doesn't mean it didn't go in on the other. Always thought it'd be easy for someone coming down the hill next to the Science Center to miss that turn!