Wednesday, November 30, 2005
On yer bike
I know I should have told you all earlier, but I finally have a bike. I buckled under and paid real (well, some) money for a nice bike. I really like him. He's the Beta Bulldog and is an 18-gear mountain bike, with two types of locks, so burglars specialising in one type will be stymied. Ha-ha!
We have had a fine time, the 2 of us, riding once through the sand dunes (where there are hills!), and once down to Delft, about 10km. (Delft - very nice town - lovely churches - picturesque streets - historic museum where you can see the bulletholes where William the Silent was assassinated in 1584 - no, really, I kid you not!!! - William of course was the father of William, I'm sorry I mean the father of the nation - in fact, he was just about the only William who wasn't a father of William, except for William III - who had no children - William the Silent had 15 - one wonders if silence was cause or effect - also tried mustard soup (me, not William (actually, possibly William as well))) However, much as I love him, getting a mountain bike may not have been the smartest, what with its big tyres being a bit slow and tougher work on city roads than other bikes. Add to that the natural slowth of my legs, and I am sometimes embarrassed by who passes me on the road, though it usually spurs me to go faster.
I intend to ride as much as possible, ie, every weekend that I'm not away, family isn't visiting me and it isn't raining too hard, so I think that leaves me one more weekend before I go.
We have had a fine time, the 2 of us, riding once through the sand dunes (where there are hills!), and once down to Delft, about 10km. (Delft - very nice town - lovely churches - picturesque streets - historic museum where you can see the bulletholes where William the Silent was assassinated in 1584 - no, really, I kid you not!!! - William of course was the father of William, I'm sorry I mean the father of the nation - in fact, he was just about the only William who wasn't a father of William, except for William III - who had no children - William the Silent had 15 - one wonders if silence was cause or effect - also tried mustard soup (me, not William (actually, possibly William as well))) However, much as I love him, getting a mountain bike may not have been the smartest, what with its big tyres being a bit slow and tougher work on city roads than other bikes. Add to that the natural slowth of my legs, and I am sometimes embarrassed by who passes me on the road, though it usually spurs me to go faster.
I intend to ride as much as possible, ie, every weekend that I'm not away, family isn't visiting me and it isn't raining too hard, so I think that leaves me one more weekend before I go.
