Lessons of a Novice Bike Guy

Here are a few lessons I have learned in the past few weeks as a novice and normal guy on a bike.

1. You should remove your bike kit from your backpack before getting on a plane.  They don't like patch kits, tools or very expensive emergency compact air pumps.  I was late for my flight and now get the joy or purchasing these items all over again.
2. It's totally cool to ride your bike while sick.  It's not so cool to be hacking up and spitting out phlegm everywhere.  There's a lady on Broadview who is gonna get me with her cane.  She's ready this time and I'm very sorry.
3. Those locks with the cool cables and extra bits that turn your locked bike into an impenetrable fortress sound good in the store but really aren't worth the $90+. You will almost always be in too much of a hurry to do more than put the main part around your frame and run.
4. Practice simple sounding things before performing them in public.  Remi told me that you can just turn your bike upside down to run into a store as it takes a thief a few seconds to turn it over.  The idea being you can run out and get beat up before they steal your bike.  Sounded good to me.  Only turning a bike upside down sounds easy... if you don't turn it into a very painful mating dance like I did.  Much to the enjoyment of the shopkeeper and the patrons.

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Comments

[lalahsghost]

Classic~

[Sean Howard]

LOL. I try. ;)

[cl]

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[Sean]

Hey CL,

The template is one of the ones offered by Typepad for free. Well, assuming you are using Typepad. ;)