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September 14, 2005
Too Much Information 
It was there, late Monday, that we had our first major incident of this year's tour: a serious outbreak of skinny-dipping. It reminded us of the first law of skinny-dipping: It's never the people you'd like to see skinny-dip who actually skinny-dip.
— Jonathan Nicholas: Coming full cycle : Cycle Oregon celebrates the sport's advances, then lets loose with some skinny-dipping, the Oregonian, 9/14/2005
Yesterday afternoon, I was down in the garage, getting ready to ride home. I spotted one of our Bike Commute Challengers, we started chatting. We're having a nice conversation when another coworker appears, in shorts and a t-shirt. This person has a history of inappropriate and/or strange actions and comments—last week he told me I looked like a little girl in a play. Huh? Anyways, he jumps on his bike (he's not a BCCer), whips off his shirt, and saying something about sticking it to the oil companies, while pedaling off. Dude, I just did not need to see that!
I went to mat pilates last night and my instructor tried to kill me. If this hadn't happened before, like at the beginning of each new two-month session, I would think that she really meant me, and the rest of the class, harm. But every session, she tries to shake us down (and succeeds to a huge extent) by doing an insanely hard class.
I was still feeling Monday's extremely hard mat pilates going into this, so I suffered. Oh yes. In the arms section, I ended up putting down my weighted bar several times. It was harsh. By the time I walked out, my hair, and my whole body was wet with sweat.
I stopped at my bike shop on the way home, to ask about the gearing on my bike. The service guy mentioned swapping in a 7 gear hub, which would be a couple hundred, or just swapping out the chainwheel rings for something with some more teeth. That would be cheaper, the guy says, 50 dollars, 40 dollars, 30 dollars—until I finally asked if I stood there long enough, would it be free?
(Are they called rings? I hate being this ignorant.)
So, I am very excited. We'll try the cheap option first and see how that goes.
While I was there, I looked at the other townies. There was a red one with white trim that was kinda classy looking, but I still feel like my townie wins out, stylewise.
Posted at September 14, 2005
Comments
ya. more specifically, chainrings. check out the bicycle glossary.
Posted by: tszuj at September 14, 2005 4:40 PM
oop. the url didn't come through: http://sheldonbrown.com/glossary.html
Posted by: tszuj at September 14, 2005 4:43 PM