February 2012
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ow. fuck.
eight hours of lifting bikes up and down stairs and lofts and hanging racks really just caught up with my shoulder muscles.
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where do you meet other cyclists?
at a biker bar? a pedal biker bar? do you just start talking to them at stoplights instead of the awkward head-nod-and-pretend-to-tie-your-shoe thing? or do you just take your current friends and try to make them ride bikes? can i even expect them to be as into as i am?
i got stood up on a ride today and im sad.
i just need someone i can force to get to ride...
i can’t seem to get anyone to go for a bike ride with me.
please someone please.
im so nice.
sometimes.
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this unicycle is straight up kicking my ass
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Anonymous asked: Do you wear a helmet when you ride?
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in places like florida and southern california there should be shops where you can rent winter clothes really cheap and in the summer they can rent beach clothes to tourists who don’t own those things.
that shit is expensive and we literally need them for three days a year, but when we need them we really need them.
i have no heat in my car and i dont own a windbreaker or any jacket...
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“Then he left me, and I started out alone to seek adventures.
You don’t...”
– Mark Twain, Taming the Bicycle
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it’s going to pour.
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since im riding twenty miles to work and working for eight hours every day from now on, i bought a bunch of cliff bars that i’ve never tried including black cherry almond, cool mint chocolate, chocolate almond fudge, and blueberry crisp.
i’m pretty excited about it, but nervous about the ride home in the dark.
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scattered thunderstorms
to ride or not to ride?
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the good and bad thing about cycling is the freedom.
you can literally go anywhere on a bike, except maybe under water or on a plane. you can get to school or work in the same amount of time, only you’re not sitting in traffic in a big metal box of pollution for 30 minutes, you’ve got the wind in your hair and you’re flying around cars like its what you were born to do.
the...
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yesterday this asshole comes into the shop and asks a question that didnt make sense (rubber grips for drop bars) and so amber and i asked him a question to figure out what the fuck he was talking about and he freaked out and shouts “can i talk to a man please dear god” and so we were like “okay sir we’re just trying to figure out what you’re looking for” and so...
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Watchcrabonfibre:
Yeah you can hate on Rapha all you want, but they’ve got some nice videos to look at.
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tough mudder workout, quick bike ride, coffee, shower, wooorrrk
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im just not going to any classes today again.
im going to go out for 20 miles and then ride to work.
im not prepared for my class today and i feel really shitty so im just going to go out and ride for a while and dream about the new wheel set im going to buy next week.
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January 2012
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weight.
carrying textbooks/sketch books, notebooks, art supplies, a change of clothes, a water bottle, and a u-lock vs. carrying only a water bottle:
it takes me about 45 minutes to travel the six miles to class carrying all kinds of shit to class
since i have work right after class, i’ve been having to wake up early to get my minimum ten miles a day in before driving to class.
it takes me...
Anonymous asked: What do you wear when you ride? do you wear something different when you ride for fun VS riding to work?
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considering skipping my favorite class tomorrow just so i can go for a bike ride.
i got a job at a bike shop and now i dont have any time to ride on my own.
i’m really sad.
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now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered the world but I’ve avoided numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some common pitfalls and have met some strange, wonderful people one of whom was myself—someone my father never knew.
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i have to take all of these online courses (237 of them actually) and stuff for work and like half of the first section is “how to sell to women” “marketing to women” “WSD” which i feel like is supposed to be the oposite of sexist but still feels pretty sexist.
but it shouldnt i guess.
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after spending so much time with those fancy shmancy cost-more-than-my-rent-for-a-year bikes at the shop, its really nice to come home to my cheap ‘ol schwinny
i am so excited for my new job at david’s world cycle
i start tomorrow.
i’m just so excited, i work six days a week (seven over the summer term) and everyone there is cool and not snobby. and its only ten miles away so i can ride there on the weekends since i wont have time to ride there after classes during the week.
i also quit my pizza hut job and got two theatre jobs so...
its starting to get busy again (you know, with three jobs and being a full time student) so i keep trying to make excuses to go ride that wont be looked at as “procrastinating” or “wasting time” like “oh i have to go to the bank” or “oh im out of index cards i have to go to walgreens really quick”
like i have class at 11:30 and i haven’t done...