Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - The Bike Man Cometh
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JumboRider
05-31-07, 08:25 PM
Hiawatha Cycles Jim Thill just sent me a note letting me know my bike has been shipped. I bet I wear out the keys on my keyboard that correspond to my UPS tracking number. So, in 5 or 6 days I will no longer have to live vicariously through the ride stories on BF. It will soon be my stories of daring do on these boards.
Until I have my steed in my manly-man hands I will not really be able to name her properly, but here are a few possibilities.
1. Jumbo, the Mother Trucker
2. Big Blue
3. Squealer, If you had a 375 pound clyde on your back you would squeal too.
4. Serenity
5. River
6. Dulcinea
7. Mouse
8. Liberty
Like any of these?
bdinger
05-31-07, 09:00 PM
What did you end up getting?
I like Jumbo, personally :)
Tom Stormcrowe
05-31-07, 09:11 PM
Dulcinea sounds right to me! After all, I am a Cervantes fan!:p
Dulcinea was Don Quixote's Lady Love!:D
JumboRider
05-31-07, 09:23 PM
Bdinger, I got the Surly LHT with the build I listed.
Tom, yep. The lady steed that loves me as I go after the windmills. Plus, the Surly may be the barmaid of frames, but she is a lady to me. Yes I know that the literary figure was in a profession a tad older than a barmaid.
Tom Stormcrowe
05-31-07, 09:29 PM
Bdinger, I got the Surly LHT with the build I listed.
Tom, yep. The lady steed that loves me as I go after the windmills. Plus, the Surly may be the barmaid of frames, but she is a lady to me. Yes I know that the literary figure was in a profession a tad older than a barmaid.
Now how did I guess you were a fellow Cervantes fan!:D
JumboRider
05-31-07, 09:30 PM
It could be that we have seen the pits of Hell and want no part of it.
Tom Stormcrowe
05-31-07, 09:38 PM
It could be that we have seen the pits of Hell and want no part of it.
Wouldn't that tend to send us toward Milton?:eek:
JumboRider
05-31-07, 09:38 PM
Nah, Cervante's Inferno....Milton makes me gag.
Tom Stormcrowe
05-31-07, 09:39 PM
Nah, Cervante's Inferno
DOn't you mean Dante's Inferno?
JumboRider
05-31-07, 09:40 PM
LOL, yep......I bow my head in shame. But I still hate Milt.
LOL, yep......I bow my head in shame.
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
Tom Stormcrowe
05-31-07, 09:46 PM
Hey, with the rhyme, it's an easy oops! No worries:p I'm just a philosophy freak!:p
...Milton makes me gag.
GASP! All my preconceived thoughts about you are as busted as a a three week old Walmart bike.
JumboRider
05-31-07, 09:52 PM
I am sorry sir. I blame my father's influence, but the choice is still mine today. Uncle Milt is great, but he is not my cup of tea.
JumboRider
05-31-07, 09:58 PM
Tom,
So am I, as well as a lit guy. The only thing I can say for myself is....um ....I am tired and drunk? Not really drunk but let's go with that.
For Neil's sake:
"When I consider how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent"
CardiacKid
05-31-07, 10:19 PM
I like the names of my bikes:
my old bike;
my new bike;
my mountain bike.
Tom Stormcrowe
05-31-07, 10:21 PM
I like the names of my bikes:
my old bike;
my new bike;
my mountain bike.
Kid, ya got no romance in your soul!:eek: ;)
Tom,
"...though my Soul more bent"
So you ordered a recumbent?
I am sorry sir. I blame my father's influence, but the choice is still mine today. Uncle Milt is great, but he is not my cup of tea.
From my blog:
"On the return leg I didn't have to walk any grades, but I was very stretched to pedal them, even in low gears. I tried to distract myself from the fatigue in my quads by thinking of poetry, but it didn't work. " 'When I consider how my legs are spent..' No, that's not what Milton wrote," I thought."