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With the warm weather comes a lot of bike riding on my part, as I don’t get much exercise sitting in a cubicle during the day and hey, I like riding my bike, which is a red, white and green racing model from the seventies. Very cool looking, I’m thinking about investing in a green tracksuit to go with it.
It can get kind of lonely biking by myself all the time, so I’ve been kicking around forming a club called the League of Heroic Cyclists, which right now has one member, possibly two. The LHC would assemble on the weekends and ride to various points of interest throughout the borough of Brooklyn and, if we felt up to it, the city at large. It would be a leisurely sort of pursuit, and I feel that other cyclists will admire and respect our restrained elegance.
I put this idea past my friend Greg, who is the Chrome Consultant at Woodstock Harley, and he immediately shot me down. If you’re not familiar with Greg, you should know that he’s a Harley-riding hellion who thinks that most of my ideas are limpwristed, sad, and castrated. He may have a point, but I felt that I had to stick up for myself and, moreover, the League, of which I’ve appointed myself Supreme Chairman For Life. As it turns out, Greg’s beef was mostly with the name of the League, which he thought should be called The Asphalt Assault (yikes!), the Manhole Boys (yeesh!), or the Brooklyn Auto Dodgers (not half bad, but smacks of a victim mentality).
As illluminating as our dialogue was, I think I’m going to stick with the League of Heroic cyclists. I don’t know if there’s implicit heroism in biking to Prospect park, drinking wine out of a thermos, and then watching people fly kites while eating mozzarella and pesto sandwiches, but on the other hand, I don’t give a fuck. I feel like a fucking hero for getting out of bed in the morning, these days.
So, as Chairman For Life of the League of Heroic Cyclists, I am extending an invitation to those of you in the Brooklyn area who would like explore the fascinating pursuit of cycling. Since this blog must be read by literally tens of people a year, response time will vary.
