Mile of my ride…not fun.  I bought a light yesterday so I can see just how bad the man-swallowing-bottomless-pit-pot holes are going to be BEFORE I hit them.  I affix my new device to the handlebar and snicker to myself something about how I use to harass kids in the neighborhood who put lights on the handlebars of their Pro-Performers or Haro’s and the like.  That’s when it dawns on me that those kids never had to go to the Trauma Center from slamming into a tree headfirst in the middle of the night….but I digress.  I check out the mounting bracket and have a thought that the thing is sketchy with a second helping of jenky (both sketchy and jenky come from my daughter) I have serious doubts whether this thing is going to hold up to the ride given the roads here are actually worse than a single track that has been bombed by a B-52.  I decide to run with it and give it a chance. 

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