Monday, August 17, 2009

Bum Scrum--Wednesday A.M.

It's so nice to hear people out on their wheels (sorry about the fracture, Tommy) and expressing enthusiasm.

Last week on Wednesday morning, I got out with Roger and Tim for the 16 mile New Albany loop Ed Parrish posted years back and both pace and camaraderie were good. So was the humor about spandex snobbery and how plain T-shirts instead of billboard jerseys for sure make one less of target for rage-crazed drivers. The beginning of the "Bum Theory" (I mean that affectionately since I still don't get why cyclists have claimed the dubious position that dressing in worse taste than a golfer is somehow cool.) Still, abundant corollaries will flow.

We're going to roll again this Wednesday, August 19, starting 9:30 a.m. from in front of the NABC Bank Street Brewhouse. We feel like going for a coffee at Perkfection in Jeffersonville (Maple & Spring Sts.) and back. No big altitude adjustments, just good miles in about 2 hours, max. (Roger hasn't yet mentioned what day he likes to do the Corydon Pike climb.)

Lightning will probably deter us if its storming.


1 comment:

Debbie H. said...

I always wear bike shorts, just find them much more comfortable. I have one jersey and the rest are t-shirts and on a really hot and humid day, I can definitely tell the difference with the jersey.