Monday, August 25, 2008

Hi and Hello. Clyde the Clincher is my name.

I'm new to my anthropomorphic abilities and even newer to this blogging, so please bear with me.

Anyhow, I've realized I need a place to met out my nuggets of advice, observations and startling humor.

I guess I'll get starting with a brief question/answer session that I can just cut and paste from a recent email from my best buddy.

1. What is your occupation?
I'm a 700c aluminum rear clincher rim.

2. What color are your socks right now?
I don't understand. My spokes are silver.

3. What are you listening to right now?
I'm listening to freewheel blabber on about how tough he is.

4. What is the last thing you ate?
Zipp carbon brake pads. Yum!

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
huh?

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Memphis Blue.

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
My family doctor, Bontrager Customer support

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Absolutely! Neuvation - he's one of my dearest pals - a childhood friendship I'm proud to say has endured over many years and many moves (thank goodness for the internet!)

9. How old are you today?
13 months

10. Favorite drink?
bubble bath

11. What is your favorite sport to watch?
cycling, of course.

12. Have you ever dyed your hair?
I went through a white sidewalls phase.

13. Do you wear contacts or glasses?
I hate glass. don't even mention that.

14. Pets?
3 rescued dogs - a chihuahua-terrier, a spaniel-beagle and a german shepherd-husky

15. Favorite food?
Indian

16. What was the last TV show you watched?
Wheel of Fortune. Not at all what I expected.

17. What do you do to vent anger?
Go out-of-true at inopportune times.

18. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Spoke wrench.

19. Cherry or Blueberry?
I prefer the squish of blueberry against pavement, though it is fun to launch cherry seeds at unsuspecting babies.

20. Do you want your friends to email you back?
Of course. Hi guys!

21. Who is most likely to respond?
RaceXXXlite, unless he's pounding a six pack at home by himself.

22. Who is least likely to respond?
Campagnolo Bora. What a prick.

23. Living arrangements?
I spend the weekdays between a Trek, and my summer weekends at my vacation home in Wheel Pit.

24. What is on the floor of your closet?
Road grime.

25. Who is the friend you have had the longest?
Neuvation - We met on the factory floor in Taiwan. We were young! I have great memories growing up together, but we went our separate ways after the factory. I'm glad we reconnected as old grown-ups!

26. What did you do last night?
I did some writing and searched rimmatchmaker.com for some new tires.

27. Favorite smell?
Most recently, an orange-vanilla soy candle

28. What inspires you?
Pavement.

29. What are you afraid of?
recycle bins.

30. Favorite dog breed?
No favorite - I love my muttley babies

31. Number of keys on your key ring?
I have an assistant who handles all the locks in my life.

32. Favorite holiday (s)?
Aluminum Appreciation month.

4 comments:

Jeff of MargaretAndJeff said...

First! Yes!

Unknown said...

This is revolutionary stuff, Clyde is well spoken and spins a great thread! He is just one smooth character and he's on a roll. Can't wait to see how the offseason unfolds... will he tire of the Chicago road salt? Can he withstand the pressure presented by the CycleOps Fluid 2? Looking forward to seeing how this evalves!

Unknown said...

wow, I mean wow.

is a new cassette the equivalent of Clyde's freewheel hooking up?

clyde said...

To be honest, freewheel is a bit of a player.