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This is my new favorite story to tell!

ENJOI

This weekend, MC and I were in Chicago riding bikes. I was on my fixed and he was rocking the Bianchi commuter, both of us in cleats. Just cruisin' around, you know?

We decide to make a stop; I hop off my bike and he pulls up next to me and starts to dismount, but for whatever reason his foot won't come out of the pedal and he starts to tip over... ope, oh! wow!!! and he grabs me - we both go down!!! Domino effect: his bike, him, me, my bike - BOOM, we fall down. Hilarious.

Then.

We're riding one of the main streets in downtown Chicago, and we're pressed up pretty close to a high curb. Kind of like riding down Market, you know? Sort of shitty streets, lots of traffic, really tall curbs, and not quite enough room for you and your bike. As we're moving along, I go to stop and put my right foot on the curb, but for whatever reason this time MY foot won't come out of the pedal! And so I literally just TIP OVER onto the sidewalk. And I'm laying there, still attached to both of the pedals, absolutely cracking up. McLean comes over and is laughing hysterically as well - and we suddenly realizes that there is a bus HONKING LOUDLY at me, because my wheels are still hanging a couple feet into the street and the bus can't get by. So I start to shimmy and slide, trying to pull my feet and my bike up onto the sidewalk, and finally the bus has enough room to get by. So it moves up a bit and pulls up to the curb and stops WITH THE BACK DOOR RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. AND THEN THE BACK DOOR OPENS, and people emerge, or rather - attempt to. No one can get out the door because I'm lying there on the sidewalk, right in front of it, still clipped into my bike. So I shimmy and shake again, scoot a bit over, and people step around me and the bus leaves.

Pretty good.

Anyway, the moral of the story is: riding bikes in Chicago RULES. It is the most incredibly flat place I've ever ridden. God's hand itself must have laid those streets with a level. You should probably go there and fall down for yourself, just to see what its about. Definitely recommend it.