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OPINION
Altercation
Thu, Jan 15, 2009 15:36
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Both knees - skin missing.
Right elbow - compact hole.
Tights - hole.
Shorts - hole.
Undervest - hole.
Handlebar Tape - holed and scuffed.
Saddle - scuffed.
As a cyclist, no matter how right you are, and no matter how any motorists get out their car to tell him he was driving like a twat, you sometimes come off worse, although kicking dents in the door is small recompense.
Where's the scrubbing-brush?
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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