in the past i often said, somebody up there likes me. the way things are going with my bike tires i'm pretty sure that whoever is up there has decided to move along and find a more deserving person to like.
yes, i had another flat tire whilst riding the iron maiden. i had ridden to the grocery store and had two bags of crap when i got that dreadful feeling, something that was supposed to be hard, was quickly becoming flaccid. oh well, it happens to the best of us but it's happening to me a little too often. i had to walk several miles home with the 2 bags of groceries hanging from the handlebars. it was a long painful walk.
when i took the wheel off and inspected the tube i discovered that the puncture was real close to the seam. you can't repair a tube that has a puncture on the seam but what the hell, i gave it a try. it didn't work. woe was me.
fuck it, the experiment with slick road tires is over and i declare it to be an abysmal failure. the improved ride was certainly not worth the extra flats i was getting with those flimsy slicks so it was off to the bike shop and i picked up some knobby tires with kevlar flatguard. the clerk told me they would be less likely to puncture than the road tires. has a clerk ever lied to a customer??? behold the new beauties:
this morning i hopped on the iron maiden and rode to the library to pick up the cd's i was on my way to pick up when that flaccid feeling overtook me. i heard these guys on cbc radio and quite like them.
i love you sons of bitches/
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I like the knobby tires much better than the slicks. You got a flat on the new tires?
Billy, mate, sorry to hear about your 'Iron Maiden' misfortune, my friend. Perhaps, 'that someone up there' is thinking, "This geezer shouldn't be riding around on his mountain bike 'getting off' on, and anticipating the thrill of 'his everyday hardness' to be so arousing." Perhaps this is occurring as a result of that 'someone' getting sick-and- tired of you riding around in your nakedness [which, I believe you forgot to mention] singing at the top of your voice, My Ding A Ling by Chuck Berry, and as such, you're paying your penance by the humiliation of persistent flaccidity! :-P Nah, seriously, Billy, mountain bikes are meant to have thick treads on them, my friend, not 'Tour De France' racing bike tyres, and it's because the 'Iron Maiden's aware of this that you're facing her wrath! Enjoyed the track, Billy. Would love to know who the fuck chooses their attire. :-P
To You & Yours, I Wish You a Happy & Peaceful Night!
Take Care & Stay Lucky!
Peace,
Steve...
tex - no the flats were on the old slicks. slix are for kids.
farmer - naked? i was wearing 2 t shirts under a thermal fleece with a gortex jacket and ski gloves with wool liners. and a thick wool toque.
my brain must be kept warm for optimal performance.
I don't think the universe favors me anymore than it does anyone else but I don't recall having a bike tire going flat on me in the last fifty years.
Pushing a bike home two miles would be no problem for me either, I often walk that far, I'm seventy but I'm not fucking used up yet.
But I am slowing down, I didn't whack off today.
I'll whack off before I'll have anything to do with most women.
Just saying.....
They just don't make 'em like they used to, BP. Best of luck with the new tires and hope the bicycle gods shine favorably upon you again. Take care, good sir.
The knobbly tyres look like the real ones to me. If I saw a bike with those smooth ones, I'd think it was for chimps in a circus ring. I'd like to see a picture of the roads you ride on.
pilgrim sartorially splendoured,
"......under a thermal fleece with a gortex jacket......"
GORE-TEX?
Thermal fleece?
You forgot the polarising sunglasses. Not exactly a modern-day Thoreau eschewing technology, are we?
Fucking yuppie.
And toques are fucking gay!
Try qualitative easing...
Qualitative easing?
Is that like, diminished expectations? The plethora of old cunts 'round here are surely familiar with that concept.
gb - the roads are pretty standard but my shortcuts can be an adventure.
aquarian - toques are gay? silent bob wouldn't hang around with jay if toques were gay. i'll go along with those olympic toques and mittens being gay but i look mighty manly in my woolen skull caps.
thims - qualitative easing? is that a term for obumble's website.
it's been weeks since that thing went tits up and still not fixed. i see nothing but trouble for aca once the young people learn they're being fucked by the boomers again. the young healthy people will be paying higher premiums to subsidize all the fat diabetic boomers.
If more quantity doesn't help your deflation problem, perhaps less quality can prop up that CPI...
Pump up the volume, or cut with corn starch. Either way, we're still flat busted. Except for Leslie.
pilgrim complained,
"......i look mighty manly in my woolen(sic) skull caps....."
I am not at liberty to comment on manliness, be it mighty or not, but I must inquire:
Do you look manly because of these obese yarmulkes, or in spite of them?
our finance minister, a personal friend of the famous ford family of toronto, says interest rates will soon be rising so maybe all the easing will deliver the much awaited stagflation.
aquarian - manly is a state of mind. i probably just look old and grey but in my mind, i could drink rob ford under the table. or is being able to consume massive amounts of alcohol no longer considered manly?
I think it's damn manly Billy and the best measure of a man.
Canadian interest rates will remain near 0 for at least two more years. Bet on it.
And the measure of a real man vis a vis excessive alcohol consumption is to switch to 'ingesting' the methanol through the agency of an enema after his stomach refuses to accept any more. Only in this way can a real man attain a manly BAC of upwards of .8 - ten times the legal limit.
I have a question and very few people will see it on my blog, but your blog gets a lot of comments from all over the world so it would be the perfect place to ask it.
Is the phrase
"Fuck me a runnin' backwards up a tree!"
Just an Oklahoma colloquialism or is it more of a a universal saying?
I wasn't going to drop the F bomb but BBC seems to have already breached the subject.
Philippine typhoon death toll could reach 10,000…
10,000 is not very many on an over populated planet of seven billion. The country is eighty percent catlick and they breed like rabbits so will soon replace the ten thousand that died, and build new shanty towns.
Nature could kill a 100,000 of us everyday and still be overwhelmed with us, we are like fucking lice.
Or we could pretend that we care about people that we really don't give a shit about after we click on the next link.
tex - i've never heard that before but i'll try to work it into my next conversation with the wife.
king - you should show more compassion to your loyal subjects. this is your legacy we're talking about.
I'm leaning toward obscurity.
Dearest ignorant and unlettered fucking cunts,
The phrase is:
"BBC seems to have already broached the subject."
Carry on.
Those are some depressed you men in their long undies. I like it.
Hope you have better luck with your biking.
: )
aquarian - i'm having a hard time typing with just my left hand because i'm sitting on my right hand waiting for it go numb.
you haven't lived until you've seen the king swimming and breaching in puget sound.
ken - the deep dark woods are a great band as well as good place to hide stuff.
Very sad news.
They are too busy making a stink about some over populating humans dying to worry much about some turtles.
These beauties, too.
You should try these http://www.mrtuffy.com/. Easy to install and really work. I've had them on my road bike for years.
First I've heard of MrTuffy.
thims - yes, i find it very depressing. don't think less of me but the turtle story saddens me more than the filipino adventure.
paul - thanks for the tip, those look like an excellent idea.
The world is too busy saving idiots with thumbs instead of turtles and starfish. I’ve never been interested in eating a starfish but it would be nice to keep some turtles around for when we want some turtle soup in the future.
I don’t know what no starfish would mean to the ecology of the planet, but I do know that not all that is here needs to be here.
Don't eat starfish. Most of them are poisonous, and they aren't actually fish.
Don't eat meat, Meat _Is_ Murder'!
Take Care & Stay Lucky!
Peace.
Steve...
Fuckin' quiet round here, what? Perhaps people are feeling a bit flat! :-P
Take Care & Stay Lucky!
Peace,
Steve...
Don't eat meat? I've always eaten meat, and I've been known to lick some of it.
A pig farmer is telling us to not eat meat?
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