Welcome, New Bike Rack! or The Value of Judicious Bitching

It's been a tough couple weeks to be a Little Red Mountain Bike reader, amirite? Well, have no fear, I'm back and ready to keep you all entertained, following three weeks in which - my bike was in the shop after a trail fall, I pulled a quadricep during a soccer game and I was getting things ready for a college friend to visit me. Three weeks and three obstacles, a veritable trifecta of shit and fans meeting.

However, I hereby return to my posting with some great news - during all the yikes I acquired a bike rack for my car. The posts lamenting my long and unexpectedly fruitless search are through and the ones celebrating the new places I can explore via bike can begin.

 

Getting the rack was, as alluded to in the post title, something of a lesson in the value of judicious bitching. Because she periodically reads this blog and because I was maybe a leeeeetle vocal  about not finding a rack at the recent Bike Swap, Bike Pimp knew I was looking for one.

So one day during my accidental hiatus, I walked into my office to find the above-pictured rack sitting on my  chair. Next to it, Bike Pimp was grinning like one of those cartoon lemurs in Madagascar. Turns out, she bought a rack of her own from a friend of hers and said friend had a second rack she wanted to get rid of. So not only do I have a rack that fits my teeny-tiny car, but I didn't have to pay for it.

Now, getting the thing onto my car (ok, watching Bike Pimp get the thing onto my car) felt a little like getting my car ready to go skydiving, and the rack looks a little like a torture device without a bike on it. However, this is a common sight in Jackson. Everyone seems to own a bike and not use it during the work day, so cars zooming around with empty bike racks happen on a daily basis. Oddly, I find it far less weird now that I get to do it too. Yay, I look like I live here!

So many thanks to Bike Pimp for the new toy, and my apologies for abandoning you all for so long. But I'm back y'all, and ready to tackle what's left of an interesting June.