Fat Cyclist made a chain-letter questionnaire, and "tagged" some other bike bloggers, with the instructions that after answering the questions they should then forward the questionnaire to three other bike bloggers, and so on. Fat Cyclist tagged BikeSnob.
Bike Snob tagged
Trackosaurus Rex and CyclingWMD.
Cycling WMD tagged me. Unlike Kyle, I'm not too cool to answer (joke!) so here you go:
If you could have any one — and only one — bike in the world, what would it be?That is a difficult question, but I think I’d have to say some kind of rare, vintage track bike, preferably Merckx’s
actual Hour bike… with risers.
Do you already have that coveted dream bike? If so, is it everything you hoped it would be? If not, are you working toward getting it? If you’re not working toward getting it, why not?No, and no, because I’m too busy lying on the beach, writing this blog, flogging cycling caps and ripping off Trackosaurus Rex (not a joke, we all know this last part is true.)
If you had to choose one — and only one — bike route to do every day for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?The Lake Front Path in Chicago. I get a little annoyed when the plebs on their rusty old mountain bikes clog it up, but whatever, it’s still a good ride.
What kind of sick person would force another person to ride one and only one bike ride to do for the rest of her / his life?One of the twisted freaks from BFSSFG?
Do you ride both road and mountain bikes? If both, which do you prefer and why? If only one or the other, why are you so narrow-minded?Mountain bikes? I’ll ride a mountain bike the day I see someone in a Trackstar shirt riding a mountain bike, and not before.
Have you ever ridden a recumbent? If so, why? If not, describe the circumstances under which you would ride a recumbent.Recumbents? I’ll ride a recumbent the day I see someone… actually, they do look pretty comfortable.
Have you ever raced a triathlon? If so, have you also ever tried strangling yourself with dental floss?No, but my brother did the
Escape from Alcatraz. In your face, haters.
Suppose you were forced to either give up ice cream or bicycles for the rest of your life. Which would you give up, and why?I would give up bikes. I mean, seriously, I give this fixed-gear shit about another 6 months. Then, we’re moving on to biathlon. Fuck yeah! Biathlon! The next big hipster thing. You read it here first.
What is a question you think this questionnaire should have asked, but has not? Also, answer it.Is BikeSnob funny? 25% of the time… maybe… dude tries too hard, know what I mean?
You’re riding your bike in the wilderness (if you’re a roadie, you’re on a road, but otherwise the surroundings are quite wilderness-like) and you see a bear. The bear sees you. What do you do?Strangle it with my ReLoad hip-pouch? Force it to choke on rainbow hex wrenches? Distract it with a brightly coloured cycling cap? Brick it? Log onto chivolvo from my iphone to ask for help?
Now, tag three biking bloggers. List them below.Dispatch 101The Tour de ChrisCycle Jerks
Last summer, Chris Hoy travelled to La Paz, Bolivia, in an attempt to break the world kilometre record at the Alto Irpavi velodrome, the highest velodrome in the world. Hoy smashed the 500m record, but missed out on the kilo record by the infinitesimal margin of five thousands of a second. While there, Hoy noticed the disparity between the equipment and opportunities available to young Bolivian cyclists in comparison to cyclists in more privileged parts of the world. When he got back to Britain, Hoy set about trying to help the aspiring track cyclists of Bolivia. He talked to his sponsors, particularly Terry Dolan of Dolan Cycles, about getting to some top quality track equipment sent to Bolivia, to replace the old and worn equipment that the track cyclists of La Paz were forced to train on. Dolan, a long time supporter of Hoy, immediately donated 22 complete track bikes. Halfords agreed to supply helmets, kit, tools, tyres and spares, Cane Creek donated a set of their best wheels, D
HL agreed to ship it all, and the UCI promised to help the Bolivian cycling association secure a development grant. All in all, Hoy managed to secure the equipment and support necessary to allow Bolivian cyclists train and compete at the Alto Irpavi velodrome on the best track equipment available. What a sound bloke. Now, I wish he'd send some stuff to Venezuela. I need a bike, Chris!
