may 21 2009
I’d forgotten how much fun it is to ride a bike, it’s been yearsss. So knowing that and knowing I went down some small stairs tonight, not bad eh. I had a yellow one as a kid.
Bottom right is a close up of my handle grips. Sigh, I know. That’s not even close to how bad the name of it is, ready? It’s part of what set my brother and I off last night… The Ramrodder. When he responded with, “paddle on Keri in your douche canoe”, I lost it.
It came from Hogtown, one of Canada’s largest skate and snowboard shops.
That’s the owner Peter on the left, showing you the LEDs on his new skateboard, and on the right is Pat Allard, he’ll help you find parts while being quiet about his excellent skate skills.
I realize it sounds obvious, but moving around on a bike is just so efficient… a 30 minute walk is now a 5 minute ball of fun. Do you know how much more I’m gonna be able to squish into a day? My world just got so big and full of nooks.
i know it’s bad for your awesome hair, but you really should wear a helmet. Saw a cyclist jack knife in front of a car yesterday (which was fortunately braking for a red light) and the girl wasn’t wearing a helmet. She "lucked out" in that she landed on her shoulder (fuckin’ ouch) but if that car had a green light, or hadn’t braked 5 feet earlier than it normally would have, a helmet would’ve been the only thing that might’ve kept her from being another stat on the pavement.
Reason I’ve worn a helmet for the past 6 years was because of a similar experience, where I flew over my handle bars on a down hill, against the flow of traffic. Somehow didn’t get my skull crushed, but I lost most of the skin on the underside of both my forearms and my knees. I went through about 10 tubes of polysporin over the following fortnight, and worn a helmet ever since, as even though I didn’t get hit by a car nor was my accident caused by car/pedestrian/cyclist traffic in any way, I still nearly rammed my skull into both the pavement and the steel railing that was 2 feet to my left at the time.