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OPINION
Ballsy Riding
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 15:31
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loose_ball_150.gifSometimes you gotta grab your bike by the short and curlies and let it know who's boss.
(possible 'Not Safe For Work' content, actually, 'Not Safe For Pretty Much Anywhere')
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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may i recommend...
Off to find a fork to poke my eyes out with.
Jeez Jo, you need to get well and get out!
Did these belong to a geisha kierin master
Happy smiling commuters?
You were warned!
As I said to Jo before he posted, It takes all sorts to make a world and we should celebrate such diversity in the way people show their love for their bikes. Except for the bloke on the unicycle who needs shooting
Oh sweet mother of Christ!
My eyes....