Velo snooze
Got a day off from helping VeloNews.com cover the Amgen Tour of California. Naturally, the wind is blowing a thousand miles an hour, confused grasses and weeds are spewing pollen, and I am suffering from an occlusion of the snotlocker and eyeballs that apparently were sandblasted while I slept.
But enough about me. The inaugural Peak Region Cyclist Bicycle Show is slated to run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Norris Penrose Event Center right here in scenic cosmopolitan Bibleburg. If you’re in the neighborhood, slide on by and check it out. My fave local shop, Old Town Bike Shop, is taking part, as are a bunch of other local and regional cycling outfits. And a portion of the $5 admission fee goes to the Pikes Peak Area Bikeways Coalition.
It’s not exactly Interbike, but look on the bright side — you don’t have to go to Vegas to see it.
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February 20th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Patrick,
So going to Bibleburg is a bright side? Vegas, Bibleburg, Vegas, Bibleburg? Old Testament, New testament…
February 20th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Hey, Ben — well, if you’re already here, it’s something of a bright side. I don’t have to drive for two days to get to the show, I can sleep in my own bed, and there are no smoke-filled casinos between me and the exit. But wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say “Bibleburg, Vegas, New Testament, Necronomicon?”
February 20th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I dunno, Patrick. Like you, I’ve gotten to the age when long drives suck. But suspect the dancing girls are better looking in Las Vegas than in Bibleburg. Even if they look at folks like us as analogous to their parents or grandparents rather than as a couple of studly examples of prime manhood.
cheers from a member of the Class of 1954,
K
February 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Ah, yass, dancing girls. This being a military town, we have a couple of strip clubs, but I haven’t patronized one in many, many years, since as a member of the Class of 1954 I am only attractive in a financial sense, and that barely.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I thought we were classmates, but wasn’t sure. Next class reunion is at the Lake’Ofire Resort, correct?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Patrick, Any conference where you sleep in your own bed is not worth going to.
Khal, You’ll have to let the Seniors from the Class of 1953 attend too.