I think Mr Bush should give up his bicycle.

[exastris]

Ahhh, reminded of a wonderful Ani DiFranco song.

The pouring rain is no place for a bicycle ride/try to hit the brakes and you slide, slide,slide, slide…

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[ElvisL1ves]

@Squink

Two hours after Bush ran over the cop, the sidewalks and streets were still SOPPING wet - I’m talking 100% wet and glistening. And this idiot decided to take a bike ride when it was sopping wet out. And what happened? Big surprise. His brakes didn’t work and he skidded into a cop.

At least it really was raining this time. Can’t count on that, though:

Sun May 23rd, 2004 at 17:18:22 PDT
Here’s the official story line from Crawford:

President Bush took a spill during a Saturday afternoon bike ride on his ranch, suffering bruises and cuts that were visible later on his face just two days before he was to deliver a major prime-time speech on his Iraq policy.

The president was nearing the end of a 17-mile ride on his mountain bike, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, a military aide and his personal physician, Richard Tubb, who treated him at the scene, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.

“It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose,” Duffy said. “You know this president. He likes to go all-out. Suffice it to say he wasn’t whistling show tunes.”

So it’s been raining a lot in Crawford, we are told. So here’s the recent precipitation levels from Crawford:

May 22: 0"
May 21: 0"
May 20: 0"
May 19: 0"
May 18: 0"
May 17: 0"
May 16: 0"
May 15: 0"
May 14: 0.03"
May 13: 2.79"
May 12: 0"
May 11: 0.15"
May 10: 0"
May 9: 0"

May 13th saw some serious rain, but other than some sprinkles on the 14th, Crawford saw nothing but sun. In the last week alone, the temperature was in the high 80s the entire time.

So rain on the 13th and (barely) 14th was blamed for a Bush fall on the 22nd.