The thing about riding a bike
The thing about riding a bike is that nobody can touch you — not the cops, not the kids, not your worst enemies, not anybody. You're too fast. The side-streets are too narrow. Sometimes life is just too easy.
The current world land-speed record stands at 920 miles per hour and is held by a monkey called Eloise, now sadly deceased. They built a machine out of steel and wheels, took it out to the desert in Arizona, put it on the biggest stretch of nothingness you've ever seen, and called for volunteers to ride the thing. Can you believe nobody took them up on it? Not even Crazy Eddie from Las Vegas who once fell off the Empire State Building just for the craic. So they had to put a monkey in it instead; pressed GO out in the Arizona desert and recorded her die at 920mph. Rest in pieces, Eloise.
But like I said, that's just the fastest ever recorded land-speed. They never recorded me flying down Bray hill on my bike; wind at my back, money in my pocket, leaving work on a Friday night.
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Yeeha Annie.
Poor Eloise though. That's really sad :(.
What's up with Ricky, eh? Cheeky divil.
Poor little monkey :(
Kilarney Road? Ah I remember the days... Almost as good as the feeling of cycling fast out of bray.
I wonder who has the land-slowness record? Possibly me, work, circa-June 2009, circa-today.
I cannot ride a bike. I never learned how to, properly, it seems, and so I mainly just wobble around and fall off.
And then people make fun of me.
I'm always terrified my cheapo bike will collapse under me if I fly down a hill, or that I'll go over the handlebars. At least that's what I was thinking coming down the steep hill that leads to Killiney Hill Park from Dalkey on Thursday night. Would be a brilliant hill for cycling down if I had the balls to, mind.
Interesting story. I never heard about Eloise monkey.920 miles per hour is too big, even for monkey. When I did my bike trip in London suburbs thorough ECT, I did less.
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