Ride 'Em While We Can

TNR on leaf-blown trails

10/21/2025

Lovely leaves adorned the trees

With brilliant colors so spectacular

If they’d stayed right there,

I’d needn’t swear

But on bike trails, in particular

I have often rudely spewed the crude vernacular

When near-defoliation

Precedes precipitation

The leaves get wet

And we’re beset

With riding

Turned to sliding

That threatens my annihilation

It’s my belief

We’ve found relief

And need not fault

The fallen leaf

For fomenting so much of our frustration

Once sought out,

Some helpers leapt

They blew the trails

And kept them swept

And gladly strove to alleviate the situation

So ride with me

I think you’ll see

That, now leaf-free,

Wet toes of trees

Have become the very roots of our humiliation

Eh, it can’t be that bad. Come join the Tuesday Night Slip ‘n’ Slide from the West Windsor Town Forest parking lot at 5:45. We roll out at 6:00.