Well I finally broke down and got me a road bike. Interesting experience riding a road bike. Did it, liked it. Decided to get me some road shoes and pedals. So I put them on today, adjusted the cleats, got my helmet put on the new shoes and headed for the door. It was just going to be a lil trip around the neighboorhood, but took the helmet just to be safe. You know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and all. I got as far as the second stair down. Bike in hand, helmet on head, sun in the sky. I noticed the cars on the road and my 350 lb neighboor in his 25 year old Astro Van. But it is ok because I have my bike and I wont end up like that. So where was I, Oh yeah the second stair down. At that point I realised that stupid roadie shoes have no friggin grip. My ass sliped down five or six of the remaining steps, bounced the back wheel off of the stairs, and somehow caught my self. Saw fat man laughing, regained my composure and fell down the last two stairs. Still, I had my new shoes and my helmet on. You know the stairs were behind me now I was safe. I through my leg over my bike, excited at the prospect of trying out my new shoes/pedals when my foot on the ground slipped giving me a prison cell encounter with the end of my saddle. By this point the neighbor is having the time of his life. I gather up the tatters of my dignity and wheel myself to the edge of the curb, one foot on the pedal, the other carefully pushing myself along. The front wheel goes off the curb, the rear clatters off, revealing to me the snakebite puncture that I got when I fell the first time on the stairs. So back I go past the neighboor to the foot of the stairs where I pretend that removing ones shoes before climbing the apartment stairs while carrying a bike is just the most normal thing to do in the world.
Kinda reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip where he has the bad day and the last pic is something like, "Some days even rocketship underpants dont help" Just thought I would lighten ya'll's day. Enjoy.
Kinda reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip where he has the bad day and the last pic is something like, "Some days even rocketship underpants dont help" Just thought I would lighten ya'll's day. Enjoy.
