Imagine you decided to take the bike out to the gas station to get cigarettes because it hasn't been run that much. It's about 9pm. You walk up the ramp, unlock the lock, swing the door open. Throwing the switch the room is ablaze with LED light, the chrome on both bikes shine. You reach up release the catch on the opposing door, reach down and release the lower latch, then swing both doors wide. You unplug the charger from the Ultra Limited and fire her up. She starts without a hitch, swing your leg over the saddle, (it's a phrase, first it isn't a saddle, second, your leg doesn't swing over anything anymore, its more of a leg lift, grab the trouser leg with your left hand pull up and direct the leg over the seat). On the bike you back her out onto the ramp, the back wheel heads down, you angle the bars so the bike backs up parallel to the building, but...
The front wheel isn't actually turning left, the bike is more drifting to the right than turning left, you grab the front brake and place your foot to stop the sideways motion, this is the point you realize that the ramp you just walked up is covered in a thin coat of ice. You foot isn't stopping the motion, the bike is still moving in the wrong direction and your leg in another, what you are essentially doing is groining yourself, now the bike decides to stop sliding. Not because it has come to the end of the ramp or the ice but it has reached a certain angle where upon it has decided that the motion should change from a sidewards motion to a downward motion, over goes the bike, and since you are still on the ramp with the front of the bike, stepping off is not really an option, its hard to step off when ice is under one foot and the other is rapidly departing the earth. Over goes the bike, over goes you, wham to the ground.
You may have noticed I used the word Groining above, I don't believe this is actually a word, but if you've ever tried to stop a heavy object from going where it wants, and all the strain has gone, you know where, you know what groining is, and feels like. Picking yourself up, you lift the bike up, allowing it to roll as you lift so the front wheel is clear of the ramp, this by the way also does not help the area you've already stretched incorrectly.
Bike upright, you turn the ignition off then on and restart the bike, she fires up and you still need smokes. So off to the gas station you go.
You arrive back at the garage ramp, you carefully walk up the slippery ramp that you didn't notice was slippery when you walked up it the first time. Swing the doors open and get back on the bike. It's going to be a straight run up in so you figure there shouldn't be a problem if you keep the bike straight, You do and it goes in fine. Shut her down, plug her back up on the charger carefully walk out and close both doors and lock them. You step off the ramp and the other foot shoots out from under you so that you land not flat on your back, but with your ass in the gravel and your back on the edge of the ramp. This is a good time to relax, lie there, think of all the things you have going on that are good and wait for the wind to get back in your lungs.
That is what sore can be, and Winter hasn't even started yet, there's a few months of snow and ice on the way....
I can hardly wait.
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