Your Handy Ride Excuses Guide

It will save us all a lot of time if we utilize the "excuse numbers" below. Just blah blah an excuse number and we can all move on. More excuses? email them to: pip728 [at] pip [dot] com

I can't or didn't ride because...

1. nobody told me about it
2. I didn't hear about it
3. I have to be back in town by noon
4. I need to shampoo my cat
5. my tire was flat
6. my wife's cousin's neighbor's son has a soccer game that day.
7. I'm shuffling newborn puppies so my life has gone to the dogs
8. ...oh is that every Wednesday night?
9. I'm resting up for a race I have in 6 weeks
10. it's too hot
11. it's too cold
12. what?
13. my wife said that mantle if I behaved...
14. my batteries are not charged
15. I have to take my kid to art class
16. I'll try to make it (read: heck no)
17. the helmet will mess up my new doo
18. I'm volunteering that day.
19. I'm riding "road" that day.
20. I'm riding "MB" that day.
21. I'm doing my civic volunteer duty (unlike you biker slackers who only ride their bikes!)
22. Amestoy's
23. Just got clipped, and the boys are sore.
24. I don't have any socks to match.
25. I'm moving to Oregon.
26. I would have climbed that hill but ... I have my single-speed tonight.
27. All of the above.
28. Don't want to ride really hard, I forgot to put deodorant on today.
29. My uterus is imploding