I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike...

Sure, beth, come on down!

Actually that's an excellent idea in general -- permanent guest bike. (But if it would fit in your car, you could have it, seriously.)

I keep going to look at my pretty new bicicletta.

A guest bike is a GREAT idea. The best places have 'em.

I'm thinking of a trip out to hmmmm, what's that great lil park? you, me, sozlet on bikes - Setanta walkin' the dogs in the dog walking area.

<where's my helmet?>

The problem with guest bikes is keeping them in street condition. My parents have 2 bikes which haven't been serviced in years.

No, that's the fun of having guest bikes that aren't in great shape. Knowing the wheel may fall off and your guest may crack their crown. Good times.

These bikes are brand-new, haven't ever been used (well I rode one of 'em home from the ceremony where I got it), so I don't think it will be too hard to keep 'em in reasonable condition.

The crappiness is more about construction/ how much they're worth. (I had dollar signs dancing in front of my eyes when I won -- I mean they're solid, expensive-looking bikes -- but the only Google references I could find were a couple different giveaway situations. One was if you bought a new Volvo, you got a couple of those bikes and a bike rack. Something like that. Couldn't find a price attached to any, but they're definitely not top-of-the-line.)

Really like the guest bike idea tho, thanks ehbeth!

Sozlet's still learning how to ride, down the block is an enormous challenge yet. But a non-sozlet expedition to the park would be groovy.

what's the brand, soz? you can always put better components on the bike, if you feel like playing around with it.

I went for a (very) little spin after work today - just around the block.

I went for a ride too on my (motored) bike. I had no idea Medfield was around here until I ended up there.

what is it about this state? Do we have an inordinate number of towns?

My bikes are Titan Trailblazers. Sounds fine until you look 'em up. Titan is like a sub-division of a middling Target-type company.

They're perfectly adequate, I don't really need more. But I when I submitted my essay (essay contest) I thought that if I won I'd keep one and sell the other and get some $$$ -- after Googling 'em, that last part didn't seem so feasible.

As guest bike, though, perfetto.

This is approximately it -- more white, less blue:

a-ha, this is what I was talking about -- this is EXACTLY it:



http://saab.centralautogroup.com/index.cfm?action=parts

I'd be proud to take a spin on a bike that looks like that.


<but will my helmet co-ordinate? where is my helmet?>

Er, helmet?

I really gotta get one. Sigh.

(Saab, Volvo, same diff...)

Helmets are good.
Helmet hair less good.

glad to hear that, for i now have helmet hair everyday.

Uhoh.... not sure what I think of helmet hair.

I used to do the dumbest things imaginable on my bike when I was a kid...built rickety 5 foot ramps that would collapse as I jumped them, get my bike going as fast as I could then stand straight up with my feet on the frame, I crashed a LOT. Never hit my head.

I wear a helmet when I go mountain biking though...there's a lot of trees to hit.

I felt like I had missed something as a child, I never crashed or flipped my bike. I did flip over my bike once, but I landed neatly in a handstand and stepped out of it (I was a gymnast). I didn't even scrap my palms. Anyway, I started hanging with some boys in high school who had old dirt bikes. We took them out in the snow a couple times and I flipped over snow banks.

An old start of a painting of mine - I stopped because I like it as it is...
Woman after Wild Ride


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