Bike Accident of the Week! (BAWWWW)

I've decided, from now on this blog is devoted to exciting wipeouts, accidents, and other ridiculous shit that happens on my bike! Check back often to find out how long I can go without reflectors or a headlamp! When will I finally get the helmet that Nate has promised to me?! When will a car finally run me over when I skid along these super busy city streets!? Check out the awesome photos of Leipziger Str embedded in my elbow! I really love my bike, and I've even written "Ode to Torpedo."

-~How I love thee, let me count the ways. Three weeks I've had thee. You are shineless and black as night, and so make me invisible to the speed demons who scour the lonely streets at night looking for prey. Without reflectors you emanate your love for me. Twice, today marks, you have thrown me from your grasp as your pumping chain skips a beat from the tenderness of my touch, which arouses your gears to spin free. You get on your weakened knees and you beg me to take me with you, when you break down and squeal. I know I've let another nurse you back to health, and it cost me. Still I try to pull you back together, stretch the boundaries of hesitancy that keep us from exploring. Yet when even all fails, you give me golden wings to make believe I am flying with you.~-

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