Christ I miss the days of free-basing EPO.
FFS. It is Friday, finally, and this is what this week has felt like:
I kid, I kid. We actually have no idea whether T-Rex was actually that color. The wine, well, depending on your poison.
Today marks the third anniversary of our fallen comrade and community member Jon Lennard’s passing. His memory rides with me still today; I have lost a certain innocence, that invincible feeling that bad things only happen to people whose lives are farther removed. Jon reminds me every day that Cycling is a risk and that if I’m not a lot careful and a little lucky, it could be my last ride. I wish these lessons could be taught in another way, and maybe other can learn in more practical ways, but for me that lesson came through @itburns’ sacrifice. I still struggle to understand that I could miss someone in this way, someone I’d never met. That sentence, by the way, is clumsy. But I think he’d have liked it that way; he’d have made fun of it in his way, that assertively humble style of his that always made me laugh.
Speaking of comrades, check out the blood pipes on Mr Alfa Lum here. This is the team that was my favorite in 1989, and one which I blame for introducing EPO into the European Pro peloton. Those guns; mercy me, thems are some Iron Curtains right there. And could anyone ever be any more Casually Deliberate? How do you rest so jauntily on so rakish a top tube? Rooskies, that’s who.
FFS. It’s Friday. Enjoy the weekend, get on the bike, and remember our fallen comrade, Jon Lennard. We miss you, my friend.
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Thanks for marking this moment, Frank. I only knew Jon as @itburns though we were riding partners once removed, if you will. He was always either outright funny or curious in that way where you know it was funny but you weren't smart enough to get it. And sometimes his comments matched his name.
Tomorrow we leave for Geneva to start a new life but it is best to slow down and remember Jon and his friends. Merckxspeed Jon.
RIP, Jon. You're missed, mate.
Yes, as I get older and now into my mid-40's and lose more friends through such unexpected and seemingly karmic arbritariness, it gives me pause to wonder.
Often I just mentally walk away and shake my head but each of their passings makes me want to deserve the next breath I draw that much more.
Ah fuck, getting all wishywashy here in the early dawn.
@itburns--ride easy, Mate.
I commuted to the office and then back home again on Friday. 36 Km and 46 Km may not seem much except that I was Working From Home.
RIP @itburns - may the wind be always from behind.
Never forgotten. Such a great contributor to the community. Sad day.
Today's ride with @itburns heavy on my mind. Miss the banter. RIP
@itburns death was the one that made all of you real, all whom I have not met, all who sadly I am out of touch with because I am not posting up these days. It happens that I come back today and we celebrate a creative who made us laugh - just his screen name made me laugh and still does.
RIP @itburns
Gone too soon, Jon. We miss you, bud.
Enjoy today, enjoy your next ride everyone!
ron
Mr Alfa Lum certainly has his Casually Deliberate down, as if James Dean had ridden a bike.
@markpa
Mr Alfa Lum = good old Andrei Tchmil, bless him.