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An interesting, unusual.. and exciting thing happened to me today.

I had finished on a customers bike and was proceeding to load it back on his trailer.. nice trailer, even has a wheel on the tongue jack. Anyway, the trailer was beside the polebarn pointing down hill so I figured to leave it there and load the bike so he could just pull up in the yard, back up to it, make the hook up and be on his way. Well it seemed like a good idea anyway...

I let down the gate and maneuvered the bike into position, I couldn't get enough oomph to push it up the gate so I got on the bike and fired it up. Being familiar with the trailer, I know that the tongue jack comes off the ground when you first pull on as it pivots on the wheels but sits back down when you get further forward so I thought nothing of it.

I run up on the trailer, the front lifts as usual, then sits back down as usual... and started rolling down the hill on my driveway. Now here I am.. bike running.. me astride the thing, on the trailer that is proceeding to roll down my driveway and picking up speed. I found myself subconciously trying to will the trailer to bear left a bit to miss the culvert that I was about to run into.
Accessing my situation and figuring this is probably going to end badly, I decided on my best option and went for it.. I let off the brakes and pushed the bike backward with my feet hoping to get the back wheel off the gate and and on the the ground, allowing the trailer to continue and roll out from under me and the bike.
Even better... the bikes weight got past the wheel, the nose stood up, the rear of the trailer dug in the gravel stopping everything cold. So I pried the seat cover from between my tightly clenched butt cheeks, put the bike on the side stand and took a minute to have a good laugh.. this could only happen to me.





oh wow, way too late reading this but LOL chy, LOL!