A tip of the Mad Dog’s ACME sun helmet goes out to Khal S. for finding this bit of signage along the Rail Trail in Fanta Fe.
With New Mexico being a hotbed of TV/film activity, I immediately wondered whether it had something to do with Warner Bros. shelving its live action/animation combo “Coyote vs. Acme” — and taking a writedown for shitcanning the $70 million feature — rather than simply letting it run heedlessly off a cliff, stop in midair, and hold up a sign that reads, “Yikes.”
I guess we’ll never know. That’s all, folks!
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Now that is the kind of news I needed this morning. Chapeau, Khal!
Brightened the hell out of my mood, lemme tell you. Well done indeed, K.
That was just the tonic for having an upbeat day when the news is all bad.
I was riding up to that sign, which is at the first crossroad as you ride the Rail Trail south through Eldorado. Saw it from a distance and thought “oh, shit, did someone get bit or have their dog mauled?” As I got close enough to read it, I almost fell off my bike (right lower corner of picture) laughing.
The sign is hilarious. The bike flat out serious business and I’ll bet it’s a smooth operator . Cue Sade. Took my Ti-Carpe Diem out for a few sweet miles today and was pretty blissed out in the crisp sunshine….until…some insect got inside the 3 layers I was wearing and starting stinging me. The poor guy that rode by and saw an old geezer furiously stripping to the waist and cussing like a sailor is probably going to need therapy. Worstest part is while I saw the bug fly off, I couldn’t ID the fekker.
Yowch, Herb old moving target. I had that happen to me once on a fast descent on Colorado 96, between Bear Basin Ranch and Brush Hollow Road outside Weirdcliffe. Piped a wasp right down the throat of my unzipped jersey. Several drivers must’ve wondered what that weirdo bicycle fella was up to, locking up the binders and takin’ ’er smokin’ into the soft shoulder before peeling down to what little the Lord had blessed him with.
I’ve zipped up for all descents since.
That Litespeed is a pretty serious and fun ride. For me, more fun than serious given I don’t race or do actual training. Just shits and grins riding.
I have to tip my hat to O’G and to Nick Legan for guiding me on that purchase. Nick wrote an excellent review in Adventure Cycling back when they did detailed reviews with frame angles, tube lengths, front centers, bottom bracket drop, and all those other measurements, etc. Patrick and I discussed details of the purchase over the phone and I then called Litespeed and got out the credit card. Then the big box arrived.
https://labikes.blogspot.com/2020/09/litespeed-gravel-first-offroad.html
That was supposed to be my retirement gift to myself although I ended up working a full year longer due to Covid conditions, to wit, it was hard to go anywhere given the lockdowns and things at the Bomb Factory were a little amiss due to The Bug so I stayed around as a bit of an elder statesman (or old fart). But it has been a damn nice bike ride. I have a separate set of wheels set up for more road-ish conditions. I have taken it up Le Beeg Hill (Santa Fe Ski Basin via Hyde Park Road) and it carves high speed corners so well I thought I was Fabio Casartelli for a minute. Or….maybe not, come to think of it.
Please, read this:!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme
Excellent, if a little overdone!
And for those who want a re-run.
Oh dear. How do we know that a sign such as that isn’t just going to give the Coyotes even *more* incentive to try such pranks?
Never give Wile E. an idea. He has plenty of his own.
Who taught the coyotes how to read?