Fame at last

[andygates]

Yay! I'm famous! Sorta... Treehugger, the environmental blog, have used a phone-snap of my excellent helmet hair the other summer as an illustration for a piece on the evils of helmet hair.

Irony:  I don't normally wear one, and that was a leisure mountainbiking trip, entirely non-essential, which I drove to on my own.  A little training before the Loch Lomond triathlon, I think.

Double irony: the survey is bogus.  "No one wants to arrive at work covered in sweat and smelling like body odor" addresses, at best, a perceived problem, not an actual one (ride slower, you dorks).  But it's a perfect excuse, making it sound like you care and putting the weird bike tribe down while not having to do anything.  The real reason people don't bike is inertia.  But "I can't be arsed to investigate the possibilities" doesn't come up often on forms.

Comments

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I could walk to half the place in Bristol without getting stinky (thank you hills). How is that a cop out for not wanting to bike? Also frankly I have a hard enough time crossing the streets here without getting hit. I don't think I should increase my odds of accidental suicide by plopping my back side on a bike.

I take the bus. I'm afraid that is as ecofriendly as I can be in the land of rain with hills.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Bike's easier than walking, you're sat down :)

[arabis.livejournal.com]

I still defy anyone to cycle up Park St without raising a hint of sweat! If I cycle slower then I go backwards, which doesn't help. Luckily work has a shower, so no excuses for me.

Love your hat hair photo.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Ride until tough, then get off and walk. Worked for me for years!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

...and that's beside the whole bizarre thing of hating people who smell like people, which is getting to the preposterous stage now. Somewhere in the human future, we're all RealDolls. Ick.