You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel.



This is Josh West (of animated gif fame) losing a wheel in the middle of a run Sunday at FedEx Field. Instead of being upset/pissed/confused about losing a wheel, he is overjoyed because apparently the kart people have T-shirts made to hand out when one of them loses a wheel. Apparently this happens a lot. Ask me again why a shifter kart would be fun (to own and maintain all by yourself).

It came off because the three lug nuts came off. Danny Kao found one by the start, and Josh found the other two near where the wheel actually departed from the kart. (If you look closely just as the kart stops, you can see the wheel bouncing across the asphalt. See the blue canopy a little further away? The wheel bounced past that and finally came to rest. In a gutter.)

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