This week, we strap on a helmet, squeeze into some Spandex, and go for a ride with bicycle blogger Gregg Deal.
By Emily Leaman
Gregg Deal has been riding bikes since childhood, and he raced mountain bikes in the ’90s. Then he took some time off—and he put on a few pounds. And then a few more. So what did it take to get him back in the saddle? “My wife would regularly poke my stomach,” he says. “I think she was expecting a Pillsbury laugh or something.”
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Five words to describe your feelings about cycling:
“This is the type of question I dread. You’re asking me to take something that has been a big part of my life and break it down into five words, and I’ve already used something like 36 words just to say that. So, lets see: epic, beautiful, suffering, pain, freedom.”
Five words to describe what it’s like to ride in Washington:
“Again with the five words? You’re killing me. How about: epic, adrenaline, fast, public, Spandex. Those last two can go together. Yeah, public Spandex.”
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Biggest cycling pet peeve:
“Getting run over. Perhaps I can be more specific. How about: Tony Kornheiser trying to run me over because he finds me to be a chesty, homo-erotic, shiney-Spandex-wearing, crunchy loser who thinks I own the road then goes on his radio show and brags about it. If you can’t read my sarcasm, I’m laying it on pretty thick. I’m not a fan of being honked at, yelled at, or put in any number of frightening situations in what has become a war between cyclists and motorists. How about we don’t war at all?”
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https://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/15385.htmloldId.20100408133015202
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