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Oh, man, I already get teased by my friends incessantly for how easily I get weak in the knees for bike kids. I'm pretty sure any advice I give is going to be way too incriminating.
It's nice to have some cheap shitty blinkies hanging around you can lend people; before I basically started living out of the same messenger bag every single day I was always riding over to people's houses and not realizing I'd forgotten my lights until I was leaving in the pitch black. I'll ride with people who just don't own lights, as well, and lend them mine because they're making me nervous.
Discuss red light preferences before riding with someone. I know a lot of dudes who just mash through every stop no matter what the traffic is like. I tend to be a bit more laid back in my riding style, and totally appreciate when someone holds back a bit on my behalf and doesn't run every red light like they have a organ in a cooler in their Chrome bag.
I tend to lead a lot when riding with people; I'm not horrifyingly slow but I'm not particularly fast and a dude with a foot of height and 50 pounds of muscle on me is pretty much always going to be hard for me to keep up with. Either they ride too fast or they overcompensate and we look like one of those pairs of Chad and Trixies riding their shiny new REI bikes a half-mile per hour on Sunday afternoons.
I met my husband on a Chicago Cycling Club ride many years ago. It was great for me because we got to know each other looking our worst - helmet hair, sweat, no make-up, lycra, you get the idea. The first time we saw each other in normal clothing it was akin to being dressed for an inaugural ball. On the personal appearance front, you've got no where to go but up!
Oh, oh, I make little social calling cards for making friends and hitting on dudes. It'd be costly, but I've thought about making a business card that was also a spoke card. It would get you laid for sure.
oh my god... literally laughing out loud.
good tips Lorena.. I will keep that in mind
so I am assuming "for sure" is a guarantee of getting laid?
totally keeping that in my back pocket
Lorena Cupcake said:Oh, oh, I make little social calling cards for making friends and hitting on dudes. It'd be costly, but I've thought about making a business card that was also a spoke card. It would get you laid for sure.
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