bike guru

last night, i drove a friend and her bicycle home after a workout (she didn’t have her headlight and didn’t want to bike at dusk on busy frontage roads–who could blame her?). I helped her load her bike into my trunk and we ended up taking the front wheel off to make it fit the trunk a little easier. as we were doing that, she pointed to the computer component that attaches to her spokes and said, “what’s that?” and i explained that it was part of the computer and also a good indicator as to which way her wheel should be when we remount it. when we got to her house and unloaded the bike and i put her wheel back on, she was very impressed and called me a “know-it-all bike girl” or something like that. i don’t really know all that much, but it felt good to have someone admire me for my sports-related knowledge.