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Don’t

Don’t go out for your first real bike ride in months and try to go hard. Just don’t do it.

But if you do, don’t let your heart rate go into the red zone. Red zone meaning you’re not sure whether you’re heart’s really supposed to beat that fast.

But if you do find yourself looking at that high heart rate, don’t engage in hijinks like trying to show the other guys how fast you can go — even for just a couple minutes, which is really all your atrophied legs have in them.

But if you do start showing off, don’t let anyone talk you into taking the hard climb back home when there’s an easier one you know you really should take.

But if you do let reason be overruled, don’t ride out ahead of the other guys, even if you’re telling them you’re just warming up for the hard part of the climb (note: it’s all hard).

But if you do go off the front a little, don’t lose track of where your friends are. They might take a turn you weren’t expecting.

But if you do get separated, don’t waste a lot of time looking for them, and don’t hesitate to take easy bail-out route back home you had in mind instead of trying to push yourself up the wall in front of you.

But if you do look for them, and if you do try the wall, don’t get off your bike, whatever you do.

But if the damned hill is just too hard for you in your broken-down state — OK, get off. And if you do, take a look around at all the stuff you’d miss if you were just grinding your way up the grade. When you get back on your bike, and finally hit the top of the hill, you’ll be amazed that you ever thought it was hard. Don’t tell anyone it was.

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Simplicity

Bikesimplicity121808-1

Others call this image “brilliant” and “awesomely awesome” and say “it makes my brain salivate.” I like the simplicity message. But shouldn’t the spokes be shown whirring around–you know, in motion–for the old friction generator to produce enough current for that light beam.

I know–picky and boringly literal. But I’m just getting started. I also wonder about the flat bar, the lack of a shifting device, and the implied absence of a rear brake. Is this some sort of hybrid hipster bike? I do like the lugged steel frame, though.

The poster was done by an artist named Nick DeWar for ReadyMade magazine, party of a project called Poster Children that asked artists “to reimagine the populist poster art of the first Great Depression.”

Dewar says of this poster: “I hope that America is entering a post-’greed is good’ period. I can’t think of a single step that would change the nature of our society more than everyone abandoning their automobiles and cycling instead. There would be less dependence on oil, obesity levels would drop dramatically, and reflective bike clips would replace fancy ladies’ purses as the current must-have fashion accessory.”

Dewar’s personal site is full of odd and wonderful discoveries.

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Simplicity

Bikesimplicity121808-1

Others call this image “brilliant” and “awesomely awesome” and say “it makes my brain salivate.” I like the simplicity message. But shouldn’t the spokes be shown whirring around–you know, in motion–for the old friction generator to produce enough current for that light beam.

I know–picky and boringly literal. But I’m just getting started. I also wonder about the flat bar, the lack of a shifting device, and the implied absence of a rear brake. Is this some sort of hybrid hipster bike? I do like the lugged steel frame, though.

The poster was done by an artist named Nick DeWar for ReadyMade magazine, party of a project called Poster Children that asked artists “to reimagine the populist poster art of the first Great Depression.”

Dewar says of this poster: “I hope that America is entering a post-’greed is good’ period. I can’t think of a single step that would change the nature of our society more than everyone abandoning their automobiles and cycling instead. There would be less dependence on oil, obesity levels would drop dramatically, and reflective bike clips would replace fancy ladies’ purses as the current must-have fashion accessory.”

Dewar’s personal site is full of odd and wonderful discoveries.

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