Typically we should make troublesome selections that run opposite to our feelings, if not the very fiber of our being. That is mirrored in our artwork, to wit:
Additionally, in “The Gifted Mister Ripley,” Matt Damon completely doesn’t need to kill his new boyfriend, however he does it anyway and so he sobs the entire time he’s strangling him to loss of life:
Then after all there’s that “Simpsons” episode the place Homer should eat his pet lobster:
Effectively, life imitated artwork this previous weekend as I took my cherished Litespeed out again and gave it a cleansing:
See how its titanium tubing sparkles within the crepuscular gentle? This could have been a contented event, however the truth is I used to be like Travis in “Outdated Yeller:”
No, the Litespeed had not acquired bike rabies after getting bitten by a type of Amazon e-bikes or one thing. In actual fact, it was in wonderful fettle, and really a lot had its entire life forward of it:
Nonetheless, shortly after taking the picture above I packed it right into a field, and by the point you’re studying this it can most likely be en path to Basic Cycle from whence it got here again in 2019. They are saying titanium is without end, however in my case it seems “without end” means about 5 years.
So why would I rid myself of such a wonderful bicycle? Effectively, in my little world that is the Yr of Pairing Down, and since divesting myself of a number of bicycles I’ve lately discovered myself confronting the truth that I used to be nonetheless over-road biked, with 4 (4) of them remaining. So considered one of them, I concluded, must go.
However which?
It couldn’t be the Milwaukee, which is just too versatile:
It couldn’t be the Cervino, as a result of whether or not it’s a classic convertible or a lugged Italian highway bike with Tremendous Document, each middle-aged man with thinning hair wants a traditional for parading round on Sundays:
And it couldn’t be the Faggin, because it was my spouse’s bike and we have now plenty of fond recollections of it, so that will be like eliminating our marriage ceremony album:
And since we don’t also have a marriage ceremony album that’s all of the extra cause to maintain it.
Oh, there’s additionally the Normcore Bike, however that doesn’t rely because it’s now my elder son’s bike:
In order that left the Litespeed:
Objectively it’s ridiculous to do away with such a wonderful bicycle, nevertheless it feels virtually wasteful to have a motorbike like this and never experience it on a regular basis as a substitute of solely a few of the time as I do now. Not too way back I attempted to handle this purchase giving it to my elder son, however at this level he has no actual want for a flowery bike you may’t lock up exterior, which is why he now rides the Normcore Bike. So again to Basic Cycle it goes.
In case you suppose I’m making a giant mistake, you’re most likely proper. In actual fact I’m positive you might make the most of that mistake by shopping for the bike for your self, so attain out to Paul at Basic Cycle (or to me if you happen to like middlemen) and I wager we might make that occur.
As for me, it’ll be bizarre to be with no trendy highway bike with built-in shifters and stuff, although I might simply throw a pair on the Milwaukee at any time. Plus, with respect to the Faggin, regardless of its light paint and its rusty chrome and hodge-podge of parts it seems the bike is unbelievable, and I can’t imagine I waited this lengthy to steal it from my spouse. Usually if I had been heading over the George Washington Bridge to hitch the Parade of Freds I’d look to the Litespeed, however the Faggin is more than pleased to imagine that position, as I came upon yesterday:
What I didn’t discover out was why the this map features a diagram of the male reproductive system:
Possibly it’s a PSA about bicycle saddles and numbness.
