A Dispatch From Superchivo
06-07-05 | 05:28 AM
#1
A Dispatch From Superchivo
This is for the old-timers still hanging around this place. I just got the following e-mail from superchivo, best known for his founding of the Battys and stupid collarbone tricks. He is currently on travel in Paris. The subject line of the message was, "You Tell Mayo ..."
Those tough-ass Chicago fixie guys have nothing on the average 40 year old French woman riding to the market in Paris. During my 90 dollar cab ride from the airport to my hotel during rush hour, I saw some to the most astounding bike handling of my life. On top of that, they all seem to do it without wearing a helmet and with a four year old balanced on their handle bars. Crazy taxis and oncoming garbage trucks don't seem to phase them one bit. Compared to these people, I am a wuss on the bike. Of course, I'm a wuss on the bike when compared with most people.
On an unrelated note, you might be interested to learn that although you cannot carry fingernail clippers through security, you can buy them at the Brookstone in Dulles' B terminal. That's Homeland Security for you!
Getting fat just by smelling all the food here,
superchivo
Those tough-ass Chicago fixie guys have nothing on the average 40 year old French woman riding to the market in Paris. During my 90 dollar cab ride from the airport to my hotel during rush hour, I saw some to the most astounding bike handling of my life. On top of that, they all seem to do it without wearing a helmet and with a four year old balanced on their handle bars. Crazy taxis and oncoming garbage trucks don't seem to phase them one bit. Compared to these people, I am a wuss on the bike. Of course, I'm a wuss on the bike when compared with most people.
On an unrelated note, you might be interested to learn that although you cannot carry fingernail clippers through security, you can buy them at the Brookstone in Dulles' B terminal. That's Homeland Security for you!
Getting fat just by smelling all the food here,
superchivo
06-07-05 | 09:42 AM
#3
Arschgaudi
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 860
Likes: 11
From: Chicago (Beverly)
Bikes: Merckx Team SC, Masi (fixed), Merckx Cyclo-Cross
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Heard: French Ladies
Heard: French Ladies
06-07-05 | 10:06 AM
#5
cxmagazine dot com
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 8,269
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From: WI
Bikes: Titus road, Fort CX
Thanks Schiek. I think the middle coast should meet the right coast sometime for a "Battihl Royale" - you know, beer consumption and a getting the SCBRT or "Scoobert"
(Superchivo Collarbone Breaking Re-enactment Team) to shows us just what happened that fateful day. We only have a few pictures and random folklore accounts.
•Did he ever get his copy of Bobke II back? TSA lets that through security, no prob...
•Did he ever improve his swim?
•Is he still running his underground paintshop?
tell him hello from the rest of us here. he kept me laughing!
(Superchivo Collarbone Breaking Re-enactment Team) to shows us just what happened that fateful day. We only have a few pictures and random folklore accounts.
•Did he ever get his copy of Bobke II back? TSA lets that through security, no prob...
•Did he ever improve his swim?
•Is he still running his underground paintshop?
tell him hello from the rest of us here. he kept me laughing!
06-28-05 | 05:55 PM
#6
Traffic shark
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 4,612
Likes: 0
From: California
Bikes: 2 fixies, 1 road, 29er in the works.
I missed this. Thanks for the update. How I miss the old days. When I was simply known as "Mr. Anger" and "Mr. Remove a crankwitha5lbsledge".
How we've grown, how we've grown.
How we've grown, how we've grown.
