Commitment.
Things just land on our desk in the V-Bunker. This is one of them. Not really knowing what to do with it, it seemed best to share it with our fellow Velominati. @del loves his cycling and @del gets “misty”. Though I don’t know what that means I hope I never get that misty. I’d have to get highly misty to end up with my first tattoo, beside the greasy chainring tattoo I rarely put on my right calf.
VLVV, Gianni
After a great ride out I conform to the Rules to the best of my ability, however on this one occasion I appear to have misinterpreted these Rules slightly. What should of been Rule #93 seems to have joined forces with Rule #47 resulting in me not conforming to Rule #52. As you can imagine things started to get a little misty, I have always wanted some more ink (tattoo for those not down with the kids) and I have always struggled with what to have done. I didn’t want the normal stuff you see, I wanted it to be bike related.
It was during the misty moment that I had my flash of inspiration. The Rules book caught my eye. That cool orange glow got me. I wanted the V and the cog on my leg. However I wanted to take it one rotation further, so the following day I knew I had to follow Rule #81. I went to my fellow cyclist who also happens to be a tattoo artist and set him this challenge. I explained that my legs were my machines for cycling and that I wanted the V and the orange cog incorporated into the design.
After six hours of me repeating Rule #5 to myself in my head I was done, All I need to say is Rule #72.
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@Teocalli
I'm hoping not to be a foreign visitor soon - in the process of getting out of Dubai and coming back to London.
January might be tricky as it will be when I'm packing up and sorting everything out but let me know, and in any event I will be around more.
But yes, definitely not going out if there's a hint of ice - spending much more time on the trainer these days. Even the wet autumn leaves make me nervous.
@frank
Is that offspring of the one dog in the "On Rule #12: The Bike #1 Paradox" article or did you finally decide to get a real big dog with 42 teeth instead of 53?
"The average adult dog has about a third more teeth than his human counterpart. Adult dogs have 42 permanent teeth compared to a measly 32 average human teeth (not counting any wisdom teeth. Those are “bonus.”). Puppies possess 28 baby teeth while human babies will have 20 deciduous or “baby” teeth."
Get an opossum, has 50 teeth.
@frank
Dogs better than people. Unconditional love.
@frank
Congrats on the new addition!!!!!
@chuckp
Dogs better than people. Unconditional love.
I've yet to meet a dog I'd go cycling with.
I've yet to meet a dog that I'd have a malted recovery beverage with.
I've yet to meet a dog that I'd go to the Maldives with for a week.
I've yet to meet a dog that I, er, ponder about during an interminable meeting at work
Still, whatever floats your boat chuckp, I judge not.
Cheers!
David
@ChrisO
I hope you don't mind me asking, but I'm genuinely interested. I've never had one of your crashes (as I enter my 52nd year) which was both sudden and resulted in significant damage to yourself. As you're the closest to a pro-rider that I can ask - has that crash really affected you in terms of approach to risk? Without wanting to sound rude, you're older than teens and guys in their twenties - do you think your age plays a significant factor in accepting risk on a ride (whether winter/ice or high speed/peleton)? Or is it the unexpectedness of it, the lack of ability to control the situation?
I ask because both Wiggins and Froome have been given grief over their downhill skills following falls, and I was wondering if/how you can relate to that.
If you reply "mind your own fucking business!" that's alright by me - but I'll ask you again should we ever ride together when you're back in the UK!
David
@SamV
OK, Manchester is a tad tricky..........
Anyway, rest assured - if we do get together and on the selected day there is a hint ice, then neither I nor Teocalli will be adverse to simply showing you a traditional English pub while Teocalli tells the tale of putting our resident stage racer, ChrisO, in hospital following a mishap with black ice.
As a non-helmet wearer myself, the story is all the more precious because whilst the damage to ChrisO was significant, his head was untouched.
On an unrelated though related note on tattoos and art - 3 days ago I commissioned a tattoo artist who lives in Long Beach, California to do a charcoal drawing of one of my bikes. So to the earlier poster that said tattoos do not equal art I'd like to say 'artists make art - it's up to them the medium they choose'. The guy I'm talking to seems equally adept to both charcoal/paper and flesh.
@frank
So my Polynesian sleeve is pro?
@AJ
I don't know, do you look as badass as Boonen? Or do you just *think* you look as badass as Boonen?
Nice new pup, Frank! Both of ours are adopted strays. Same with our two cats. And our field mouse, which our cats found. I guess the only pets we paid for are the fish! Harder to find those.
With a baby on the way in May...things are about to go from pretty crazy to pure crazy.