Apparently, riding your bike to work in the burbs is an odd thing to see since I had a number of remarks thrown my way on my way home. They include the following:
- Ride your bike on the sidewalk, asshole.
- Nice bike, faggot.
- Look! It's the 40 year old virgin.
- Woo-hoo!
Apparently, the sidewalk remark is born out of the fact that you can ride your bike out there and never run into anyone. The streets are packed but the only people I saw using the sidewalks were people on bikes. It's illegal in the city but in Jefferson Park it appears to be the preferred use. As for the other comments I say:
- Why does riding a bike make me gay? Also, it's 2007 folks. Can we stop using that word?
- I am not 40 and I slept with lots of ladies in my day. Who? Girl I met at Niagra Falls. You wouldn't know her. She's from Canada.
- Woo-hoo indeed. I was hauling ass down Foster at the time and with the wind in my hair I probably looked pretty dashing.
3 comments:
As a walker I hate bikes on the sidewalk. I think you were probably pretty cool on your bike. Speaking of, do you know any great places to get cheap yet cool bikes? like under $100.
I got my bike from Craig's List. It's my go to source for just about anything. There is a place in Uptown that fixes bikes and resells them called Uptown Bikes.
http://www.chicagobikeshops.info/shopDetails.php?id=30
Another place is Working Bikes Cooperative. It's a great charitable organization on the south side.
http://www.workingbikes.org
I'd have to leave at 2am to get here on a bike.
I'm really lazy.
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