Are you man enough, or are you just another rbr dumbass? A sample from
a Cascade 1200 ride report.
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While pretty, Loup Loup was a vicious climb. Ted was feeling pretty good at
this point but I was starting what was to become several hours of fairly
entertaining but ride-crippling hallucinations. First, the entire road
surface appeared to be under laid with leaves and other patterns like they
were suspended in Lucite. At other times the road surface was decorated with
patterns like a full body tattoo.
The lines on the road assumed different appearances as well. At times both
the white lines and the yellow would disappear or more accurately appear
clear and the road would seem to be a guardrail-less bridge in the sky. I
don’t particularly care for heights and found this to be not very conducive
to safe riding. At other times the lines turned into 2 foot tall curbs or
low walls. The most disturbing vision involved the center line bending over
to connect to the white side line forcing me to ride into a slowly unfolding
corner of highway.
Another fairly consistent and persistent vision involved wet or tar patches
on the road turning into a half animal that would rise from the road upon
our approach and then shrink back down into the two dimensional shape when
we passed.
The edges of the road were full of fairly active visions as well. Landscape
moving in the breeze turned into cubist jack-in-the-boxes grimacing towards
the roads. The horizon and sky were also a little bright which brought
about an effect that Ted shared which was feeling like we were riding under
a bridge even in the open road!
The picture show continued with the addition of boxy furniture forms
appearing on the road so that I was forced to ride through them. There were
also various sheets and other vapors that would drift across the road and
obscure Ted’s taillights from view. One particularly fine example of this
was a mattress form that was thick enough that my vision changed for the
period that I was “inside” this shape. After this went on for several hours,
I decided to try another roadside nap in an effort to shake these visions.
This was a fairly pitiful point for us. It was raining and the shoulder was
just a mud field but finally we found a place to lean against the guardrail
under our space blankets and snooze for 30 minutes or so.
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I already know the answer, you're soft, not tough enough. Laance is
shooting for Robic in RAAM. I have a feeling he's got the right stuff,
unlike most of these pampered over-rated pros. Tyler, forget about Europe,
.......RAAM.