yellow bikes and hard core tricks.

i am grateful for the phrase hard core.  if it weren't for that phrase, there would be nothing to define me and my killer bike gang  this summer.  for some reason all i can think about is singing "all the other kids with their pumped up tricks"...instead of "kicks"...i have a real knack for changing songs for my benefit.  and tonight it was a famous song that will most likely become my bike gang's theme for the summer 2012.  side note:  let it be known that i am also grateful for the fact that my roommate in the opposite room has no idea that i can hear her singing in a lovely falsetto right now.  sweetie.   

they call me mojo.

gangs are hard core.

22 mile moonlight bike rides with real live biting hair bugs are hard core.

red hair is hard core.

tie those things together and you get my bike gang.

we're hard core.

if you or someone you know would like to be hard core

get off the computer, go into your garage, get your bike, dust it off, and train with these guidelines.

MUSTs

• be able to ride with sass.  meaning ride with your hands on your hips because that is the definition of sass.
• do a wheelie.  because someone in the gang should know how in order to be legit.
• watch this video and adopt this attitude.
• despise cars.  the antibike.  bike everywhere. 
• pass hazing initiation rituals that will be left up to the founders.

MUSTN'Ts

• insist on wearing helmets.  even if your dad tricks you into it.
• cry when the gang gets too hard core.  in fact you should never cry because gangsters don't cry.  unless they see a bike get destroyed on purpose.  that is messed up.
• refuse a nickname.  i am mojo.  rightfully so.  
• diss the theme song of the gang.
• fall off of your bike unless you are a) telling a story or b)adding dramatic effect to a situation.

when you are man enough to run it

call me.