bike meme...
I have cut a few out that I really don't want to do, and of course I have already done a lot of these things in the past, but I think they are worth doing again, and there are other things in there that remind me what cycling is really about....
1. Ride in a pace line at 16 mph or faster
2. Complete a night ride - thoroughly enjoyed the ride home on the Mongoose BMX (yet to be named) after the Australia Day Skyworks while everyone else was stuffing themselves into the trains...
3. Ride in the rain - in the drought breaking 'storm of the century' where cycling was really the only viable way to get around as all the roads were flooded!
4. Ride in the mud
5. Ride on a beach
6. Install a cyclo-computer on your bicycle
7. Install clipless pedals on your bicycle
8. Ride every paved road in your city excluding the freeway and busy highways
9. Ride over a suspension bridge
10. Ride through a tunnel
11. Ride on a dock
14. Wave at motorists from atop an freeway overpass
15. Participate in six five organized bicycle rides in a year
16. Go out of your way to run over a paper cup while riding your bike - OK it was what I thought would be a muffin... if it was a muffin it was a damn stale one because it was hard like a rock... good thing I was riding PigEx
17. Go out of your way to run over crunchy leaves with your bike
18. Make or receive a phone call while riding your bike
19. Text while riding
21. Complete a multi-day bicycle tour
23. Ride on a Rail Trail
24. Ride on a dirt road or trail for a mile
25. Log 800 bicycle kilometres in a month
26. Log 400 local kilometres in a week
27. Complete a 40-km ride on seven consecutive days over local roads
28. Find money on the road during a bicycle ride
29. Find something useful (other than money) during a ride and take it home with you
30. Run an errand on your bicycle
31. Pull a trailer with a bicycle
32. Haul food for the hungry with your bicycle - donation to foodbank yesterday morning
33. Ride your bicycle to your place of employment
34. Go camping on your bicycle
35. Change a flat tire for another cyclist - Alex, and the wire bead of the tyre was CORRODED TO THE RIM!!! :P
36. Join a bicycle club
37. Join a cycling related e-mail list
38. Purchase a new bicycle
40. Ride all of your bicycles during the same day
41. Fix/change a major component on your bicycle yourself changing PigEx forks... and even making Pig into PigEx....
42. Use a drive-through window while on your bicycle
43. Complete a metric century (62 miles)
44. Complete a standard century (100 miles)
45. Complete a standard century on a hybrid or mountain bicycle
46. Complete an unsupported standard century (100 miles)
47. Ask a stranger for water
48. Relieve yourself while riding your bicycle
51. Begin an informal group ride from your residence
52. Draw a route map for a club ride
53. Keep a diary of your completed miles
54. Subscribe to a bicycling magazine
55. Purchase a cycling jersey that has a graphic design - By graphic I don't think they mean rude, so I'm counting my Silence-Lotto shirt
56. Apply chamois cream to your bottom in public
57. Take a youth for a bicycle ride
58. Take a dog for a run with your bicycle
59. Take your significant other for a bicycle ride
60. Kiss your significant other while both of you are wearing cycling helmets
61. Ride to a restaurant; meet your significant other there for dinner - gave Nic a dinky on the back of the xtracycle to the Thai place on the corner
62. Ride to a nearby town, spend the night, and return the following day
63. Loan or give a piece of equipment or clothing to a new cyclist
64. Complete a volunteer function for an organized bicycle ride
65. Write a bicycling related article for a publication
66. Accompany a new cyclist to shop for a bicycle
67. Attend an amateur bicycle race
68. Participate in an amateur/outlaw bicycle race
69. Attend a professional bicycle race - Tour Down Under, Adelaide, 22 - 26 Jan ;)
70. Watch a video of a professional bicycle race well, TV coverage, but I think it counts
71. Watch "American Flyer"
72. Watch "Breaking Away"
73. Watch "Quicksilver"
74. Watch "A Sunday in Hell"
75. Watch "The Bicycle Thief"
76. Watch "Beijing Bicycle"
77. Watch "Return of the Scorcher"
78. Watch "The Triplets of Belleville"
79. Watch "Who Owns The Streets/We Are Traffic"
80. Watch TV coverage of the Tour de France
81. Read Lance Armstrong's book entitled "It's Not About the Bike"
82. Ride a road bike - my flat bar roadie counts, sure it does!
83. Ride a mountain bike - it may be an xtracycle, but PigEx is still a mountain bike
84. Ride a fixed gear bike
85. Ride a track bike
86. Ride a hybrid
87. Ride a tandem
88. Ride a tricycle
89. Ride a pedicab
90. Ride a surrey
91. Ride a recumbent
92. Ride a penny farthing
93. Ride a swing bike
94. Spray a dog with pepper spray (or just carry the spray in case)
95. Get your picture and/or name in the newspaper for promoting cycling
97. Ride your age in miles on your birthday
98. Ride through four counties in a day
99. Stop an unacquainted cyclist and introduce yourself - chatted to a guy with a greasy mullet and a motorised pushy towing a cargo trailer containing a blue heeler, he was impressed with my xtracycle - so many people stop to talk to me when I'm riding it. I think I need to keep the little propaganda leaflets closer to hand... I can't reach them when they are way down in my freeloaders...
100. Ride a 10 mile loop route as fast as you can (time trial)
101. Get up on the summer solstice and see how far you can go between sunrise and sunset.
102. Donate or volunteer to a local co-op, advocacy group or cycling related nonprofit.
103. Ride in a storm. great thunder and lightning!
104. Watch "2 Seconds." Lesbian downhilling movie - more like bike courier movie!
105. Fall off your bike.
106. Show a new cyclist a good bike route