blog break

You may be surprised, but a lot of people send me videos.

I want them to send me photos of cute people that they have met who are wearing helmets, but no – they mainly send me videos. Sometimes they send shy/nice emails and often they include a video.

Sometimes they send me funny videos, of mean people teasing hipsters in rap. Other times, extra fancy hipsters doing things for Rapha. Sometimes they are videos that I have already seen, sometimes they are new. I don’t know if I should also repost these videos but sometimes I do. Sometimes I don’t because I believe that I am a pretty slow news service and it feels dorky to come in so late on things that have already gone viral, found antidotes and become benign already.

I’m going to take a blog break, it’s a long weekend here in Sunny Queensland, so time for some time off. And I always find it hard to write in this funny/neutral/silly tone when really I am feeling strangely disconnected, sad or downright depressed.

So let me leave you with this video, which is still my very favourite thing to watch sometimes when I am feeling down.

This man looks natural on a bike. This man makes my skin sing when I watch this clip. I wonder what it must be like to do something like this, something so natural and perfect and difficult and laboured and hard and futile and beautiful and perfect. And to do it so well.

There is nothing that I do so well in my life that it could inspire the strange feeling of awe, of lonely, reverential wonder. I have friends who are classically trained opera singers, talented artists, amazing photographers, and they all do something similar for me – inspire this quiet smile.

But this is bikes, so I like it best.

See you when I see you.

I think I might surface somewhere around 14 May. There’s a full moon scheduled.

Wanna see some photos?

Or ride some long way in the night?