Negotiating UNC's Brownian crowds of pedestrians while bicycle-mounted is an inherently deceleration-intensive endeavor, and so it's hardly surprising that the rubber has been entirely eroded from my rear brake-pads, leaving the brake/wheel interface as two smooth plastic surfaces with nary a coefficient of kinetic friction between them. For now I'm using the front brakes as a stop-gap measure, but eventually I'll need to locate Franklin Street's cycle shop.
I heart my bicycle this much. It transforms and amplifies my body's abilities, but remains inert without my kinetic input, and that's really cool for some reason.
Life is interesting, and possibly about to become pleasantly complicated. However, instead of writing about it just now, I'm going to go to bed, as I should have done hours ago.
posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006
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