TeamBlue

Friday, May 02, 2003:

a first effort.

insecure about possible outcomes and sustaiability, but will perservere.

yesterday was thursday. every thursday for the last two years i've met friends for a friendly ride. spring is especially nice as the time changes and a night ride becomes an evening ride. i was on maurice, he's a runner. he only has one speed. unfortunately so did i. the chi was like a dodgy electrical connection, i never knew what i would get when i turned the switch, sometime six-million-dollar-man legs, others nothin but cable ends and pocket lint for a motor. surely got arm pumped though. fully rigid up all around, 19 in chain-stays, like an idiot, only a 1.9" semislick for rubber. not even my usual .75" of travel from 23 psi. pinballed off every hoof print, root, and rock. all together it was a good ride, as is every day rolling around. the shining moment, though, came after all the trails, on the patient ride homeward. i was alone and happily spinning tward the new diggs, just gotten off an alley and riding down the nice residential street. it's lined with deciduous trees, all in various stages of bloom, only one or two of a dozenand a half fully green yet. they canopied the road. rain was thinking about dropping, steel grey sky. the colors fell together beautifully. smiles and bliss on a 32x16. i waited the whole ride for that moment.

doug // 13:47

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