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I did not go down and get it.
Occasionally, I will carry 50 feet of paracord, and could have used that to fish it out of the canal drying up for maintenance, but I was without paracord. If you tell yourself you won't need the paracord, you will need it.
Reuse, recycle, I did not.
Cleaned up, oiled, greased, freshened up, it could be ridden. Ride it I did not.
A garden hose, a can of spray paint, "clean bike cheap ride!", a Craigslist bargain: sell it I did not.
Painted blaze orange and stuffed with flowers: a front yard decoration. It was not to be.
Streamers, sparklers, flares and flashing lights, a celebration! Denied.
A cutting torch, a welding machine, a new contraption! Hack no.
Traced back to its owner, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. This your bike? What the heck were you doing, throwing it into the canal? CSI I am not.
Ground up, melted down, liquified, poured into a sand mold for jewelry. No not molded, not jeweled, not made pretty.
Hack saw, cut into varying lengths, strung up with spokes and wires, a wind chime! Negative on the wind chime.
Painted white, a ghost bike, a memorial? Not done.
Just this: photograph on the blog, a few words below it.
These: please don't throw bicycles into the water. Use them instead.
Sunshine. Open air. Quiet. The road. The path. The trail. Get up. Go ride.
my current bike was rescued from a dumpster in denver. the boys at the bkie shop keep telling me to get a new one. they do not understand.
ReplyDeleteIt might still be there- you could go by with paracord.....:)
ReplyDeleteIs that a pristine Brooks Saddle in the photo, in need only of a little cleaning and Proofide?
ReplyDeleteClowncar, I understand. Too well. I would jump into a muddy ditch for one!
ReplyDeletecycler, alas! The canal boffins have cleaned this, and refilled it, and my paracord would be for naught!
Steve A it could be a Brooks saddle. I suspect its owner came up with a new conditioning idea: six months under water in the Arizona Canal. Will report back if I here any results of this approach.