http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org Telling it like it is, or isn't, or well you get the idea. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:08:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en like probably a lot of other people, i was a bmx kid. i never raced but i'd constantly being doing stupid shit with my friends that invariably involved breaking my bike or breaking myself. there was a bmx track a few miles from my house, so we'd sneak in there ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/felixnine/ I invented the bicycle in my early years... Then around 1956 I became the worlds fastest trackstar* Then I started wearing my girlfriends slacks and dyed my hair black, black as night. I rode like the wind and everyone knew I was the best at everything because I spent all ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/nadmenny-moodge/ My father was a tourist and my (10 years) older brother was a shredder. there was always a bicycle or four around the garage as a kid. The problem was I would always break them (my friends bikes too). They would sit around until someone or I would fix them, ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/slowski/ I've done a lot of reading here, but no writing. Mountain biking always seemed awesome to me. Always. I mean, back when I was so little that I was riding a Huffy on 16's (Gangsta style, clearly), I would go to a friend's house, and we'd ride this BMX style loop ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/buckley/ i just got into biking this year, well fall 07. when we moved into our house in allston there was a specialized hardrock mountain bike in the basment, and since i didnt want a car here in the city i decided to use that to get around. rode that for less ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/timivancic/ Throughout my childhood I had numerous bikes, the most memorable was a Diamond Back BMX bike that I bought to try to be a super BMXer then realized I sucked at BMX. I remember my dad telling me he'd buy me a bike for my birthday and going to the ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/morgie/ I completed my 20th unsupported century before I could form memories. By the age of four my thighs were so massively disproportioned that doctors warned I would have to quit all muscular activity in my lower body for fear it could rip away from my torso and go off to ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/javier/ Next! The first bike I was into was a crappy, neon orange Huffy MTB. Total death trap, the chain fell off every other day. But my friend's dad was into motorcycles, so he'd get a kick out of helping us fix up our ratty bikes. I grew up rural, and my ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/notty/ I had random garage sale bikes throughout my childhood that my mom'd pick up every once'n a while, most cool-y, the "Street Rocker", a hot pink tiny coaster-brake laden machine with a radio velcroed to the front handlebars. Finally got a new hybrid bike along with my brother in middle school ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/gus-from-mpls/ oh, i guess i'll go, but i've always had trouble telling this story. (i tried writing it for creative nonfiction last semester. it was tough.) my bike love started in middle school. (quick side note: i originally wrote '92, and i don't know why.) in grade school i rode around town ... http://fakengering.bostonbiker.org/2008/02/11/conor/