Bike Hugger 

I prefer my lights to run on double or triple A batteries, mostly because I can get rechargables and even if they run out I can usually bum a replacement. On the down side, good rechargables can be pretty spendy. This is why when I heard something fall off my bike this evening I circled back. Hell, that’s $20 of batteries I thought. I have no idea what the driver of the SUV (who was driving slower than I was riding I might add) was thinking when he ran right over my dropped battery pack.

The battery pack is dead, shattered into a hundred tiny pieces. The replacement should be about $3 at the local electronics store. The batteries though? Seemingly unharmed. The moral of the story? Don’t let your battery pack fall onto the road, but if you do, use rechargeable double AAs.