The Bicycle ride of a lifetime

[Heavyduty053]

 

 

               Scotty was a sixteen  year old that loved to ride bicycles, he lived to compete in marathons, cross country and moutain races. He had several special built bicycles, his father and uncle built in their shop since they owned it also. They were working on a new bicycle for him with new technology and he could hardly wait to try it out.

               Scotty had big plans for getting in the Book O World Records. He wanted to break the fastest speed on a bicycle record, thats what he hoped for one day and maybe each new bike would  be the one to help him do that. The current record was 100 miles per hour. Scotty would come into the shop every afternoon after school and spend most of his time polishing and doing things to prep for his next race when he was rides to practice. He was always asking, is it ready yet, how much longer?.His dad and uncle tried to explain to him that they had to work on other bicycles to, thats how they made money to pay bills and buy food or they would go hungry.

               They promised him it would be ready and he could try it out this coming Saturday evening if all went well. But today is only Monday, thats too long, how about Friday, when his uncle spoke up and said we will see, OK. Scotty had been telling all his freinds in school about the new bike. He would hit his upper thigh with his fist and say see solid as a rock, course all the girls liked this. His freinds patted him on his back. Saturday evening liked to have never got there, so he thought anyway. His father and uncle had banned him from coming into the shop the lastw few days until they could put the finishing touches to it.. He rode his bicycle bacon the sidewalk in front of the shop all morning on Saturday. He stopped everfive minutes or so and looked into the window hoping to catch a glimpse of it.

               His dad came out and gave him some money and said they could work better if he would go get them some burgers from down the street. Scotty speeded away after the food hoping that maybe his dad was right. When he returned his new bicycle was sitting right inside the door. It was true blue and shinning bright as a star. It even had a speedometer installed on it that registered all the way up to 150 miles per hour. Scotty was so excited he asked his father if it would really go that fast. His dad grinned and said, "If you can peddle it fast enough".Then he looked down and saw a price tag with Ten Thousand dollars on it. Scotty said, Yeak right", I should be the one charging you that foor making me wait so long. Scotty climbed on it, waiit a minute son, cme eat first and there is some things we knew to explain abut this new bike. Scotty said, "No Way", i gotta try this new baby out then i will eat. Scotty's father and uncle knew they would see him until dark now.

               This bike had twenty gears, it was made for speed and to climb. It was the speed that Scotty was interested in to break that record. He rode the dbike out to the long straight stretch of road leading from town to the mountains. It wasn't traveled very much so there would be very few cars. He was just getting ready to see just how fast this bike would go. A park ranger helicopter showed up for a look hovering overhead for a few seconds. Ten miles long, it had rained all day the day before so lots a places was still wet. The helicopter circled him a couple of times, waved and then off they went. He knew they liked his new cool bike and had to take a closer look. Scotty started peddling and slowly increased faster and faster. He looked down and the speedometer was reading 70 mph, then he changed gears and after a few seconds looked down again and his cool bike was doing 95mph and still had room ro go. This made him smile. It was about this time that he heard a little bell ringing. He looked around and it was an old woman hot on his rear with her old bicycle. THis stunned him and here she come passing him. Granny woman just smiled passing him as she went around him and then pulled back in front of him. This couldn't be, he thought, so he shifted gears again trying to catch up as she was increasing the distance between them. She would turn around every now and then and wave in motion to come on. Was he dreaming or is this really happening. An old woman with a basket on the handle bars, a little bell and it looked like it was thirty years old is out running my new cool bike. Scotty was already hitting 98 mph and still she was up there. He only had one gear left and it made him smile because this was enough to break the record but right now he was interested in what this old woman was doing and how she did it. Finally they hit the mountain part of the stretch and this would slow both of them down.

               Scotty was still doing 60 peddling hard seemed like catching up with her when she took a side road, one Scotty had been on before. She disappeared around a sharp curve and when he came around it found the old woman stopped and her bike and her arm pointed to something over the side of the cliff. When he got closer she got on her bike and off she went. Scotty got off his bike and looked over the cliff to see a young girl down at the bottom, hurt and ringing her bell. She had been ringing it the whole time. She was wedged between two big rocks still holding on to her bike. Scotty called out to her but she was unconscious but still ringing that bell. Just so happens the park range helicopter made a round and saw what was happening. He radioed for help. The ambulance came, they got Jenny out and took her to the hospital. They got her broken bike out to. It was a new bike but all smashed up. Scotty told the rescuers about the old woman and they searched the whole area and found nothing. Scotty was surely puzzled now. He rode his bike home and all along the way trying to make sense out of what just happened. the next day he went to the hospital to check on the little girl. Her mom and dad was there and was very thankful he came along and found her. He told them he didn't just come along, then he told them about the old woman. Jenny was released from the hospital a few days later and they invited Scotty over for dinner, they said thats the least we can do. When Scotty arrived it was a party in his honor for what he had done. Scotty's father and his uncle and all his friends was there to, it was hard but they made it a surprise. Scotty looked up up the wall and asked Jenny who was in that picture hanging there. Jenny said, "Thats my grandmother, she died and is in Heaven with Jesus. I pray to him every night to take care of her. Scotty could not believe his eyes, he had been outrun by an angel so i could find her granddaughter.

 

Angels are all around us in our time of need, sent to God's children through many different ways. Yes, even each one of us can be used by an angel in a time of need.

              

 

 

 

 

 

[RodandStaff]

I've heard of someone being "hell on wheels "...but now this puts a new twist on it Heavy!  I always heard we should never drive/ride faster than our guardian angel can fly...but in this it's case it's pedal! 

[nannab]

Thank you Heavy ! 

[Heavyduty053]

I surely agree with you Rod

[fringe on lamps]

That was beautiful

[pattyangel]

Another good one Heavy