Apres Velo Blog

Cycling, as you all know....becomes a Religion or a cult for most of us. We live it, breathe it, eat and drink it. We FUEL our bodies for the ride, train ourselves to accept pain and then MORE pain and practise with friends or groups of like minded souls who live the life we do. Sunday long rides become a ritual, the weekday dark, early rides are part of our religious fervour. Our heroes & heroines (saints, Gods and demi gods) are the ones who do it harder, faster and longer. We dream of winning races, or of conquering mountains or achieving certain goals and distances. We devour bicycle magazines, websites and bicycle films with relish. We cherish our trusty steeds and clean and polish them....but look with lust at gleaming new models in bike shops, the temples we worship at.
I listen with reverence to the mechanic priests who try to teach me all about my beautiful bikes - but I'm not worthy, i'm a mere artist, a scribbler.... and all the petrol and resin fumes must have affected my brain because they teach me how to pull my hubs apart, clean them and put them together again and 6 months later I've forgotten and am too scared to do it by myself. They have infinite patience but i wear them down.
I have made a cross for the devout True believers, for those in the grip of Bicycle religious fervour to pray at. Before races, rides or for selfish reasons....I just want a new bike.......

this cross is made out of resin and stands higher than me and is set onto a conrete base with a MTB tyre around it and inlaid chain Apres Velo logo. It has holes for incense sticks in the base, of course. Offerings of Goos, bike parts, money and/or energy bars are acceptable.