tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957028601082026247.post5648125405715298821..comments2023-06-20T09:49:39.951-05:00Comments on The Altona Bicycle Enthusiast Society: thursday night ride reportAltona Bicycle Enthusiast Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04069595523890011661noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957028601082026247.post-961946336551452992009-09-14T12:44:07.031-05:002009-09-14T12:44:07.031-05:00Paul,
You are a wordsmith. We need you at our rid...Paul,<br />You are a wordsmith. We need you at our rides and post-ride hydration meetings to clarify yourself (and ourselves). Your voice is huge and must be heard. Now shut up and ride.<br />JSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957028601082026247.post-51776036344131384422009-09-12T15:49:25.134-05:002009-09-12T15:49:25.134-05:00They are reusable napkins though! They may have be...They are reusable napkins though! They may have been useful had the rain fallen during the ride. Chased home as I was by the lightning, I admire your fortitude in riding later in the evening. All hail the ABES (uhhhh ...).<br /><br />Though I have little right to comment on this final decision, being a DB, I'll waste what little right I have right now. ABES? Altona Bike Enthusiast Society? Bike? Is this a preemptive measure to allow for bikers? Motorbikers? Are some of you anticipating riding something other than a bicycle in your future as an ABE? <br /><br />Wait a minute ... as an ... ABES? Is it possible be an ABE now? Must I be an ABES? It does not scan. My ABEness forever lost in the swirl of the plural. The BORG? Individual identity forsaken to the Society. <br /><br />This gives me pause. As a bicyclist, as a poet, as an individual in search of a community that, while graciously accepting my DBishness, my faults, my absence, my presence, I must now allow it to swallow me whole in the maw of its ABESness.<br /> <br />Oh fellow cyclers do not misunderstand me. I long to be in. I long for membership in society, but I value ABEness. I value Altona. I value Bicycles. I value the society of my fellow Bicycle Enthusiasts. Bicycling friends, here I stand: Although I will continue to associate with, and welcome, the community that ABES offers, on the above grounds I protest the name of it. <br /><br />I offer (peddle) this entreaty, as a fellow pedaler who will never (Lord willing, but he's let me down before) ride a bike to, from, or during an ABES event. <br /><br />In closing, I wish to advise that the jerseys will look less cool with ABES on the front than they would with ABE, and I regret the uppercase "S" on the logo, and had already made a logo sans "S" (which I guess I'll just have to throw away).<br /><br />With respect,<br />P'DB'Ksmall locum plumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03457505606252350483noreply@blogger.com