I surprise even myself.
So I now own a bike. And I hiked four miles yesterday (I’m calling it hiking because there was a mountain involved. And it wasn’t just a mountain in the distance.). Yes, I too am surprised. I’m not quite sure what my plan is. I guess I’m either going to get into good physical shape or accidentally kill myself. So far I’ve been ok on the bike, except once, when I was trying to get off the bike on the corner of a major intersection and I pretty much wiped out. Damn gravity. Always on. Fortunately, I look like an alien in the helmet (which I wear because it’s both safe and cool) so no one can recognize me anyway. Also, no one who actually knows me would expect me to be on a bike. Or, on the ground underneath a bike. Well, unless said situation involved me wandering aimlessly around and a bike falling from the sky unto me. That’s fairly likely in comparison to the other scenario in which I’m voluntarily riding a bike.