What song are you thinking of?
Well when I hear "BRRING BRRING!" I think of "Bicycle" by Queen.
And speaking of which, I just bought my first bike today...I found it secondhand online...thankfully the person selling it lived down the road from me...
Why?
Because I actually cannot ride a bike.
(You can stop laughing now...I'll explain!)
Once upon a time, I was 14 years old and still did not know how to ride a bike. BUT! I wanted to learn!
(I also lived in an area where a nice bike easily gets stolen, there were lots of huge hills and drivers aren't always the friendliest towards cyclists...)
So my family hit up the local flea market and my Dad found one for me and it was pink and white...and a pretty good bike. Not a mountain-all-terrain thing...just a basic bike with pedal brakes.
I ended up falling a few times, getting scared and hurting myself (girls can get hurt too - if you know what I mean!)......so I said that's it. I'm never biking again.
However, I live in Finland...where biking is part of the norm and is pretty fast...and free compared to taking the bus.
So tonight - I'll try and bike a little nearby...I'm terrified honestly. And I have to find a bike helmet for my jumbo huge head....
And my tires don't have much grip so I'm stressing that I'll fall over or slide on the ice...and of course I found one bike with 3 gears and winter tires on it for 10� more than what I paid...AFTER I committed to buying this girl's bike...*sigh.
But then again, now that we have two children - I doubt I'll be able to use it much in the winter anyway!
(And for 40� - I really can't complain).
Brrring brrring!
Well when I hear "BRRING BRRING!" I think of "Bicycle" by Queen.
And speaking of which, I just bought my first bike today...I found it secondhand online...thankfully the person selling it lived down the road from me...
Why?
Because I actually cannot ride a bike.
(You can stop laughing now...I'll explain!)
Once upon a time, I was 14 years old and still did not know how to ride a bike. BUT! I wanted to learn!
(I also lived in an area where a nice bike easily gets stolen, there were lots of huge hills and drivers aren't always the friendliest towards cyclists...)
So my family hit up the local flea market and my Dad found one for me and it was pink and white...and a pretty good bike. Not a mountain-all-terrain thing...just a basic bike with pedal brakes.
I ended up falling a few times, getting scared and hurting myself (girls can get hurt too - if you know what I mean!)......so I said that's it. I'm never biking again.
However, I live in Finland...where biking is part of the norm and is pretty fast...and free compared to taking the bus.
So tonight - I'll try and bike a little nearby...I'm terrified honestly. And I have to find a bike helmet for my jumbo huge head....
And my tires don't have much grip so I'm stressing that I'll fall over or slide on the ice...and of course I found one bike with 3 gears and winter tires on it for 10� more than what I paid...AFTER I committed to buying this girl's bike...*sigh.
But then again, now that we have two children - I doubt I'll be able to use it much in the winter anyway!
(And for 40� - I really can't complain).
Brrring brrring!
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