Mojo Slim

Here's my pace line story.

I had just started road riding. My sister arranged for me to ride with some friends of hers. When I met them at the start of the ride, they asked if I had ridden in a pace line.

"No", I said.

"Just stay in back, we will pull you". There were two singles, a tandem and me.

A few miles into the ride, the guy in fronts says, "Rock Up!"

I had no idea what that meant. Possibly, "we're going to pick up speed" or " get closer together". When nothing bad happened, I figured what ever I did, I did the right thing.

A little later, the leader shouted, "Truck up!".

OK. Clearly, that means speed up or something. Again. I apparently did the right thing.

Finally, the leader shouted, "Bus Up!" I looked ahead and saw a school bus making a U-turn in front of us.

Oh. I get it now.