Eggs and sausage and a side of toast
Coffee and a roll, hash browns over easy
Chili in a bowl with burgers and fries
What kind of pies? — “Eggs and Sausage,” Tom Waits
Going to Interbike as a “cycling journalist” is a lot like deliberately overeating. Everything that goes in must eventually come back out, one way or another. Then it’s stand back, boys, she’s gonna go a gusher.
Outdoor Demo is but an appetizer, a trifle. It’s too hot to think, and people are either fresh from getting settled into their hotel rooms and routines and/or discovering with dismay which key piece of pro equipment they forgot to fetch with them from Podunk (MiFi, digital recorder, camera, Visa card). So they nibble around the edges out there in the desert outside Boulder City, ride a bike or two or three, gulp a beer in the VIP tent, take a deep breath.
Tomorrow the show opens for real at the Sands Convention Center. I recommend wearing Wellingtons, a slicker and a welder’s mask.
• Late update: Meanwhile, Lennard Zinn waxes rhapsodic over a $2,600 wheelset. Well, he’s waxing something, anyway. Jesus.
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Man those wheels look SPOOKY. And WOW! 2600 for a WHEELSET??? For that kind of scratch they better pedal themselves and serve a cold beer while they do it.
Well, at least Lennard is alive and well. Read this and start packing heat.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/bs-md-pettigrew-killed-20100921,0,6892851.story
Those wheels are god awful ugly. It looks like they were cut with a hacksaw and joined with super glue. Give me good old steel spokes where if one breaks all the others don’t start exploding.
$2,600 for wheels?!?!?!?!?!!? My car is worth that much! And it keeps me dry when it rains, warm when it’s frickin’ cold, cool when it’s hellishly hot and takes me further, faster than my bike with $300 wheels will ever go.
Has the day in age when “your bike is worth more than your car” been supplanted by “your wheels are worth more than your car?” I think I’ll take up a cheaper sport like marlin fishing.