Creative Burrow
CreativeWritingBurrow => Blogs => Topic started by: Bunny on 08:55pm Thu, May 13, 2010
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So I got lucky and some company asked me to do a logo for them. After I did it they gave me $100!! :D
So I ran to Walmart and got me a bike, helmet, drink bottle + holder, and some cover that's supposed to make the seat feel less like the devil made it.
Then it wouldnt fit in the car :rip:. So I had to walk it over a highway to get home...two of them. In peak hour traffic :blink:. I was also wearing jeans and a black tshirt, in like 90 degree heat. By the time I found a gas station to pump the tires up, I was excited cause I'd get to fall off it trying to ride, but I either blew the front tire or it was already from the devil.
Anyways I made it home semi-living and here's a pic:
(http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/03/86/75/44/0003867544475_500X500.jpg)
And now I haz a bike!!
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Bunny, that is SO awesome ! I love bikes, and I wish I still had mine; but we had to leave it when we moved here from Idaho. Mine was a three-speeed, dark cherry red old-fashioned type bike with the foot brakes. I have never gotten the hang of using those new-fangled hand brakes-----bikes didn't come that way when I was a kid !
Now, I am thinking that what I need is one of those three wheeled adult trikes, so I can ride it around and it won't tip over with me.
When I lived in the country in Idaho, I had a trail through the woods and I rode the bike around that several times each day. The dogs, and sometimes the goat would all trail along behind me, until they got tired, and then they would stop when we went past the trailer-house, and just wait for me to finish my rounds on the bike.
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Unfortunately this bike was very short lived. I couldn't find a seat for it, the one on it literally cut of circulation to your legs (regardless of size) so yeah. :(
I miss my old mountain bike, it took me a while to get used to hand breaks too! It's even harder when you can't tell which is front and which is back ha ha.
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Well, that is just too sad, Bunny ! I guess that the next time you head into Walmart for a new bike, you should ride at least a few loops around the whole inside of the store and make sure that you can actually ride it comfortably, and that the tires aren't flat or about to blow out.
Should the Walmart employees try to stop you from cruising the store, you can always outrun them, since you will be on a bike and they won't.
Not only will you get a better bike, you will have a really EXCiTiNG day....
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OH LOL. My bad, that bike lasted a little but it fell apart completely. Had to take it back twice and then Walmart took it back and refunded me because it was so obviously defective.
Anyway, my OTHER bike which I got when I got here cost me about $200 total and that's the one with the shite seat. Also it was the wrong size so it hurt to ride it. I dunno what to do. I am so short that the taller bikes are a struggle but the smaller ones are too small for me :(. I think I need the frame size to be different lol. Or a male bike. I dunno.
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I know exactly what you mean about the size being all wrong ! I am about 5'3", and it is hard to find a bike that fits right, even when you adjust the seat for height.
The one that I had fit me perfectly, and I think it was a 24" one, and a 26" is definitely way too tall, and I can't even get on the darn thing !
I must have just raised the seat a little on the smaller bike , and probably the handle bars, too. The seat was just the perfect height, and I bought some kind of a soft cushiony seat cover, so it was pretty comfortable to ride.
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I'm 5' 3'!!! :D Well 5 foot 3 and 3/4ths ha ha. I just say 5'4" usually!
You completely get it for sure. It feels like it's the worst freaking height when it comes to bikes doesnt it?! I have trouble on the 24 inch ones, I love the 26 inch ones but the seat is too high too XD. We need a 25 inch one I reckon!
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Lol. What an amazing story . Kind of sad though but hey at least you got the bike .