Nice read on a little insight why we do what we do …

crankpunk

what do you do?

i race bikes

why?

i’m not sure

what do you mean? not sure?

cos when i’m actually racing  i am usually on the rivet and it’s not exactly pleasant

what’s a rivet

it’s like a bolt. you know, like a rivet in a pair of jeans. they used to use rivets to hold the leather onto the saddle frame, on the old leather saddles. being ‘on the rivet’ means sitting really far forward on the saddle, on the nose, where there used to be a rivet. it’s when you are riding really hard, basically

so you ride on old leather saddles?

no, i use a modern one that doesn’t need a rivet. it’s all glued and stapled and stuff

then why say ‘on the rivet’?

we just do, it’s a throwback

so when you say you’re not sure why you race  cos you’re usually on the…

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