I’ll play along

Not much to say about packing for moving, so I might as well generate some content.

If you could have any one — and only one — bike in the world, what would it be?
A Karate Monkey made of titanium. The KM can be built as anything, and ti won’t rust. I realize the question doesn’t ask what frameset, but so be it.

Do you already have that coveted dream bike? If so, is it everything you hoped it would be? If not, are you working toward getting it? If you’re not working toward getting it, why not?
Sorta. So long as I’m not restricted to one bike forever, I have no intention of spending loads of cash to marginally improve something I already own (in heavy, bomber, crashproof steel).

If you had to choose one — and only one — bike route to do every day for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?
The route from Barrow to Patagonia (in Argentina), of course. Let’s try to cheat as much as possible; I’d have to ride it a few times at least before I could do it without getting lost from the previous route, and riding new stuff is it.

What kind of sick person would force another person to ride one and only one bike ride to to do for the rest of her / his life?
Friedrich Nietzsche. His idea of the eternal recurance to evaluate the worth of one’s life is in my mind without equal in it’s utility. So, sounds like a good idea to me. Problem is, there are so many out there I hope to ride in the next 70 years or so.

Do you ride both road and mountain bikes? If both, which do you prefer and why? If only one or the other, why are you so narrowminded?
Mountain only, though I ride pavement on the mountain bike. Pavement is a necessary evil in the world at the moment.

Have you ever ridden a recumbent? If so, why? If not, describe the circumstances under which you would ride a recumbent.
I believe I test rode one when I was 14 or so. A tricycle, as I recall.

Have you ever raced a triathlon? If so, have you also ever tried strangling yourself with dental floss?
No, and no.

Suppose you were forced to either give up ice cream or bicycles for the rest of your life. Which would you give up, and why?
Bikes. I like running and hiking too. And there are always unicycles.

What is a question you think this questionnaire should have asked, but has not? Also, answer it.
Do you find Truth with a capital T to be an efficacious concept on both a metaphysical and practical level?

You’re riding your bike in the wilderness (if you’re a roadie, you’re on a road, but otherwise the surroundings are quite wilderness-like) and you see a bear. The bear sees you. What do you do?
Stop and marvel.

Now, tag three biking bloggers. List them below.
No.

3 responses to “I’ll play along”

  1. Wow -that somehow managed to be the most boring (and mildly offensive) set of answers to those questions that I’ve yet read, and I’ve read several.And to top it off, I’m going to pull a You, and decide that I’m too lazy to copy my text, sign off your account, sign onto my account, and paste my comments into the text box, so my comment posts under my name (Meredith) instead of yours (Dave).And that’s the Truth.

  2. What is it Matt said the other month; about being a smartass and a dumbass at the same time?……..

  3. I don’t remember, but with an ass as small and tight as yours, I don’t think it has any room left for being either smart or dumb…oh, and seeing as you didn’t employ a subject in the second half of that sentence, your use of the semi-colon was grammatically improper…

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