Bicycle update (Girl, you need Pussy Control!)

It's funny to think, it was just a little over two years ago that I got back onto a bicycle (I hadn't been on one since the beginning of high school). I was in my first semester of grad school, and liked the idea of biking to the UO. Well, I really liked the idea of starting a bicycle gang.

One time Prince wrote this little ditty "Pussy Control":

Our story begins in a schoolyard
A little girl skipping rope with her friends
A tisket, a tasket, no lunch in her basket
Just school books 4 the fight she would be in
One day over this hoodie
She got beat 4 some clothes and a rep
With her chin up, she scolded "All y'all's molded
When I'm rich, on your neck I will step"
And step she did 2 the straight A's
Then college, a master degree
She hired the heifers that jumped her
And made everyone of them work 4 free?
No! Why?
So what if my sisters are triflin'?
They just don't know
She said "Mama didn't tell'em what she told me
'Girl, U need Pussy Control'" (Are U ready?)

Suffice it to say, I love "Pussy Control." So much so, that I named my crap-Royce Union bike after it.

Well, that bike came and went. For a little over a year I've been rocking a Raleigh Passage 3.0, which I purchased mostly because it was a beautiful shade of purple. I am not going to lie.

Now, a natural move would have been to stick with the Prince song bike names and call her "Purple Rain." But that is just so... obvious. And besides, the Biker Ghouls were trading up bikes left and right... and giving our new bikes sequel names.

So, Pussy Control became Pussy Control II: The Secret of the Ooze (thanks, Ninja Turtles!). Parenthetically speaking, her name is Prairie Rose, after the Roxy Music song (her technical color is like Dusty Rose or something acrylic-painty like that).

Pussy Control wore a cheap Dymo label announcing her name to the world. Up until last week. While doing a St. Vincent De Paul trip I stumbled upon some really cheap, really ancient, decorative letters—the kind you get wet and stick somewhere. They happened to be gold, which is one of my favorite colors. So...



What do you think of her now? I suppose I need to find a spot to add the necessary II: The Secret of the Ooze.

KK