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sniff, roll, cough

November 5th, 2009 1 Comment

TweetThese days, a cough, sneeze, or sniffle is enough is send me running. Preferably outdoors. Like trains, buses, and crowded public areas, classrooms are cesspools of bacteria and germs. I made a vow this year not to get H1N1. Not so much because I heard that it sucks more than having your impacted wisdom teeth […]

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[imaginary] friends

May 30th, 2009 Comments Off on [imaginary] friends

TweetOne reason I tend to ride alone is the blissful ignorance of how fast I am not going. No fancy cycloputer on my handlebars, no stop watch, just a cell phone and a mental note of when I roll out. Of course, when you ride with friends with gears, everything sort of changes. Not in […]

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freewheel fun

April 13th, 2009 4 Comments

TweetAlmost exactly six months ago, I was still freewheeling it on the Bianchi. I bought into the hype and was consequently terrified of going fixed; hence I was stuck in that gray area of the freewheel where I almost got scene points until I started coasting. The resulting inferiority complex really killed me. Ironically, I […]

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