14 Oct 2009
Rites of Passage - Bicycling
jjae:
Some of my favorites:
- Bonking so bad you don’t think you’ll be able to make it home.
- Discovering how a convenience-store Coke can resurrect the dead.
- You’re on the bike for the fifth straight day, and your butt doesn’t hurt.
- You try bibs and realize you can never go back to shorts.
- You blow a snot rocket without hitting your shoulder or leg—or the rider behind you.
- You notice that someone else has the chain grease on his right calf.
- You got dropped, you flatted, bonked, got turned around—and when you got home you said you had a great ride.
- Cleaning the cassette with your old toothbrush.
- Wrapping your bar tape so the handlebar plug stays in and no bare bar shows at the tricky bend at the brake hood.
- Crashing and immediately asking, “How’s my bike?”
- Explicating your training in exquisite detail on a blog, then realizing nobody cares.
- Outsprinting a crazed dog.
- Riding down a trail you couldn’t safely walk.
- Feeling superstrong, then turning around for the ride back and realizing you had a tailwind.
- Wondering if cycling matters too much.
- Not caring if it does.
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