Christine and I get around town by biking and walking and in walking and biking around I’d seen this old Schwinn World Sport locked to a lightpost a half a block from our house. The bike had been locked to the post for at least a month. Now I should note that this is something that make Superior, Wisconsin different from Seattle or Portland or Eugene. Here in Superior, you can leave a bike locked to a lightpost with a flimsy lock and it will stay untouched for a month. In those other cities I mentioned, the bike would be stolen or stripped within hours. Now I should be clear, I didn’t strictly need this bike.
Then it looks me right in the eye and I belatedly realize that this dog is a wolf and I figure I’m dead. The other day I read an article on BikeRumor! About a Kickstarter project for a biomotion taillight. This makes sense to me, and for years companies have made pedal reflectors and reflective ankle bands with this idea in mind.
I reached the point where I had to spend some more money on this project so I rode my Allant over the bridge to Duluth. I did have the proper freewheel puller in my tool kit to remove the freewheel, but I didnt have a bench vise for leverage. I did, however, have a big wrench and the seatmast kent mountain bike from my Bike Friday Pakit that worked great as a cheater bar. A casual observer of the work in progress would think that I was building a unicycle. I was worried about rabies so I went to the doc and got the shots. Four shots over fourteen days and the doctor said I’d be fine.
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It turns out they actually have a name for what I’ve got and it’s kind of the inverse of that Alpha-gal thing that Nick has. They call it Talbot’s Syndrome and yeah, it’s transmitted by the bite of a werewolf. Doctor Simic tells me it’s chronic and incurable, that’s the bad news. The good news is that’s it’s damn predictable. Once a month, like clockwork, I turn into a wolf and have to kill. There are miles of mountain bike trails in the area.
I was getting closer to having things dialed in. Even so, I ran the purchase past Christine and she said OK. I called the guy up, met him at the corner, took the bike for a test ride and bought it. I didn’t even try to dicker on the price because $15 is a screaming deal. There are certain advantages to my wolf-state. It was an easy thing for me to track your scent and it brought me straight to the bike.
Alpha-gal is something I’d never heard of and it’s not some high-status chick, it’s a disease like Lyme Disease that you get from a tick bite. There are a hell of a lot of ticks in the woods. You probably want to be careful around that deer head I left you.
And I was running out of time, the moon was starting to rise. I ran for the woods and you’re damn lucky I made it there and found an unlucky deer. Once I got the bloodlust out of my system, I turned my attention to the problem of recovering my bike. The same doctor who’d told me I’d be fine still said I was fine. I’d told the doc about the fever and running off into the woods, but I left out the part about the blood and the deer. I didn’t want to get locked in the loony bin.
In the past ten years, Kent has been a top-ten finisher in the Colorado Off-Road Point Series, finishing second in 1994. In 1986, Kent’s futuristic thinking guided him to develop rear suspension for his bikes called YBB (Why Be Beat). So simple in its design and effective that in 1995 Hall of Famer, Tom Ritchey, started incorporating Kent’s design and parts on his top-of-the-line XC bikes. They can be toggled to either flash or constant lighting of red or white LEDs and they come with a little rubber mounting strap. They are quite small and I mounted one on the back of my helmet and a couple of more on the back of a couple of my bikes.