Over the last several weeks I’ve learned something about the fine art of crashing one’s bicycle in style. There are essentially two ways to do it: either you have someone cause it, or you go all out and subscribe to the DIY school of bicycle crashing. I’m somewhat acquainted with the former, and extraordinarily skilled at the latter.
This black-and-white divide, however, really isn’t accurate. Once you get into the zen of it all, you realize that there really is a spectrum of possibilities ranging from the “it’s completely not my fault and I had nothing to do with it” style of crash through the “ok, so they did swerve in front of me but if only I’d not been hell-bent on riding their wheel I
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June 22nd, 2009 | 
