My name is fatmarc vanderbacon. I had the great pleasure of riding my bike with Buddy the leg breaker, Kid Chris, Nick, Shane, Rombach (toughest man on the planet) and Kurtee last weekend.
"big deal" you say. "you ride with those guys ALL the time..."
Yeah, well yeah, but after a few months of crushing souls minus an ACL, Buddy the leg breaker will have surgery this week to be made whole again. I'll miss riding with him, and he called his shot as we headed out for the "Mr. Belvedere hates you loop" for his last ride.
A few thoughts:
1. Mr. Belvedere hates you much more in December than in June. This was much tougher than I remembered. We had two LONG peppy sections that stung my legs everytime I walked up the stairs the rest of the weekend.
2. We turned onto Old Elk Neck road and it looked like someone smashed 100 cases of beer all over the place. There was glass every where. Perhaps fitting, Buddy got a flat on his last ride for a while.
3. While changing the tire a kind woman drove by, slowed down to take a good look to, we assumed make sure we were okay. Just then the kind young woman flipped us the bird and sped off. Welcome to cecil county.
4. As we rode into North East we saw lots of road closed signs. It became clear that the Christmas Parade was coming through town, and sure enough we rode right through it. We greeted the crowd with our best pageant waves. We were greeted by kind smiles all along this section of the route.
At the end of the of the ride, it was all smiles, as Buddy explained how much he loves parades, and we wished him the best of luck wtih his surgery. It was a pretty damn good day...
looking forward to riding with Buddy very soon...
thanks for reading.
respect
Vanderbacon...
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