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@big_mummy_smeear
im a hipster
well i haven't ridden since i was younger and i realized that i totally should be.
i went on a trip to Cornwall a few years ago and took a friends old mtb and rode it from coast to coast with out a map.
thats how i remembered the joy of riding but hated all the problems with the gears, like cracking your nuts on the top tube up a hill
a few months later i met Rosie and she was riding everywhere,
then a couple of weeks after that i find a bike in a skip and wonder what the fuck is wrong with it,
"its broken cause the pedals keep turning and they touch the front wheel" so i did a bit of research and realised i had found someones fixed wheel winter trainer.
thats about the time i started talking to roberto,
anyway i cleaned the bike up as best i could and i was rolling and loving every second, untill it threw the chain very late one night on a main road and i did the mother of skidds, this happened again and i realized that the frame and wheels were not true. It was time to buy a new bike, naturally fixed wheel.
got my overdraft extended and blew it all on a new bike leaving no money for food or rent but i was a happy bunny
now i am obsessed and want everything in my life to have pedals.