The Problem With Owning Two Bikes

[mickle]

" The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones."

Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

 

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" The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones."

Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

Although I have spent over 40years riding bicycles I think 30 of those will have been Aluminium or more lately it has been carbon. Will I be half bicycle and half robot🤖

 

[Pat "5mph"]

You're giving your bikes feelings they don't have. A bike is a tool for fun and transport. It doesn't think or feel jealousy. The problem is in your head, not the shed.
Just ride the one that suits the day's ride best and enjoy it. The other bike is fine waiting for its next turn.

The OP's head is obviously full of imagination!

I never thought anyone would take me seriously.

I think you would do well doing a creative writing course, your OP is very enjoyable.
Btw, I'm like you, I can make up stories out of nothing, then my friends go .... ahhh, Pat .... buttt (insert reality of your choice here) ...

 

[Rusty Nails]

Everyone knows real steel bikes have soul and sensitivity.

Aluminium and carbon bikes are just like AI creations of what bikes should be.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

" The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones."

Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

This is why you develop balls of steel

 

[Mike_P]

If I've not been in the bike shed for a while its two occupants have often obviously got intimate with each other as somehow they have tangled together. Due to illness I have not had either out since the Saturday before August bank holiday so wondering what I will find.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

If I've not been in the bike shed for a while its two occupants have often obviously got intimate with each other as somehow they have tangled together. Due to illness I have not had either out since the Saturday before August bank holiday so wondering what I will find.

At least three bikes.🤣

 

[88robb]

I never thought anyone would take me seriously.

Why is that.

 

[Punkawallah]

The Hack and the Tourer reside in the garage. They have clearly defined areas of responsibility + the Hack takes me in around the town, and the Tourer takes me out of town. As such they have no conflict of interests, and harmony is achieved.

 

[Punkawallah]

Thank you. I'm surprised that anyone thought I was being serious.

Other than comedic effect, of course ;-)

 

[teeonethousand]

Everyone knows real steel bikes have soul and sensitivity.

Aluminium and carbon bikes are just like AI creations of what bikes should be.

But but...we are carbon life forms so surely we eventually grow to literally resonate at the same frequency as our carbon bikes as a bond forms.

 

[figbat]

But but...we are carbon life forms so surely we eventually grow to literally resonate at the same frequency as our carbon bikes as a bond forms.

A covalent bond?

 

[Rusty Nails]

But but...we are carbon life forms so surely we eventually grow to literally resonate at the same frequency as our carbon bikes as a bond forms.

And explode into a thousand pieces if bumped.

 

[matticus]

" The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones."

Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

I was waiting for that quote! It's a goody ... but I regret to say, I really couldn't get into the book. It certainly wasn't dull though, so I'll put it down to a marmite thing. Three Men on the Bummel remains top of my whimsical cycling books pile. For now ...

 

[Jenkins]

If I've not been in the bike shed for a while its two occupants have often obviously got intimate with each other as somehow they have tangled together. Due to illness I have not had either out since the Saturday before August bank holiday so wondering what I will find.

At least three bikes.🤣

Ah - so that's how come I've got a folder curled up in the corner of the shed.