Cell Cycling
8 April 2007 | random bike stuff | No Comments
This is totally irresponsible, but I used to bike to work while smoking and talking on the phone. I promise you I don’t do this anymore, but I had fun doing for the sheer frustration factor. In fact, I think this used to bring disparate groups together in their sheer hatred of me. On the one hand, the spandex cycling types were thinking, " Why the hell would you bike AND smoke?". And the automobile drivers just didn’t like cyclists in general (this is while living in Boston) let alone a cyclist smoking and talking on the phone.
Well, I must say I paid for it. While drinking a steaming hot cup of coffe while on my bike I missed the pothole in front of me, caught my wheel in it and flipped over the front of my handlebars. Karma has paid me back.
I should mention that in the really flat small towns in Italy, which you only find in the Veneto and the Po Valley, the Italians smoke and talk on the telephone as if they were born to do so. This is while thy’re carying babies on the back of their bikes. I love that they just do whatever comes naturally. To them, the bike is more of a tool than a cultural statement, and that’s refreshing sometimes.
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