I'm too "Prissy", so I'm told

[Bluetree]

I was hanging out with some friends last night at my Tri Club social and they had an intervention of sorts. I was duly informed that I was 'too prissy" and that something would be done about it.

"Too prissy?" I said, unbelieving. Don't they know how many snot rockets I launched on my last ride?!

Yes, too prissy. Apparently, my roadie cycling clothes match too well, my legs are too shaven, my bar tape is too clean and I lack the requisite number of scars on my knees, elbows, knuckles and ankles. I am also in want of stories where I have ridden into trees, fallen off logs and rolled down enbankments.

So now my "friends" have found me a small Specialized mountain bike frame and are in the process of building it up with all of their spare components. They say they are grooming me for a future Xterra.

I have no say in the matter. My voice is "too prissy" to be heard.

I will have to get dirty.

[bouncybouncy]

What wonderful friends you have!!! I am sure it is in your better interest and you may fight it...kicking and screaming...denying all your prissyness until you have completely overcome the withdraw & anger stages!!!


You may not see it yet, but trust me, follow your friends thru that dirty tunnel and the reward will be invigorating!!!!


...and as always rubber-side-down!

[Running Mommy]

Now THAT made me lol!!

I have been imortalized on video stating my disdain for all things mtn biking.

We were on a trip to moab (husband and all his friends) when I screamed at the camera as I was bombing down a hill "MOUNTAIN BIKING SUCKS"....

I shall never live that one down.

Every once in awhile I get the urge to "get dirty" but for the most part I prefer asphalt under my tires.
My husband and son on the other hand.... sigh... Dirty boys to the CORE!

[caligurl]

GEEZ.... nothing wrong with being prissy.... and you can be a durty gurl and prissy, too! i hate tan lines... bruises... dirt... i have to match.... (and love pink mountain bike stuff!) oh... but sorry... i do NOT do snot rocket... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

so you just continue your prissy ways..... it's OK!!!!!!

[Kitsune06]

Rubber Side Down, FTW!

I'm a sissy when it comes to my mtb-ing. I've seen enough nasty injuries to know enough to be careful... Y'know, N-shaped collarbones and the like? I keep enough gauze etc in my bag on 'serious' trips (where I can foresee needing it...) just b/c I don't trust anything...

Still... "Prissy" to me, is "oh, I don't want to get my clothes dirty" or "*GASP!* I tore my windbreaker!" nothing you should be wearing to MTB should be that good. Baggy cargos and bleeding forearms and calves ftw. Treehugging... (half crashing and grabbing a tree to stay up) ground-eating (mmmmm taste that dirt!) and RSU maneuvers (Rubber-Side-Up) are my forte... not that I want to... and nothin' like raspberry marks on your hips from sliding. yow. Snot rockets, bloody marks, sweat and tanlines... the 'fake tan' from dirt and dust clinging to sweat... These are a few of my favorite things...

q, though,
I patched out on gravel a couple months ago on one knee, and though I debrided it as much as I could etc, and it healed fine, it looks like it's still got some black tattooing from the gravel debris... anyone know if that ever completely works its way out?

[caligurl]

nothing you should be wearing to MTB should be that good.

*gasp* but i only buy CUTE mountain biking clothes!!!!!!!

[spokewench]

Ah, Bluetree - the mountain bike world is a wonderful place!

Here are some tips so that you can keep up your "prissiness" even while mountain biking!

Always wear short black socks - not white - oh they will get way too dirty!

Yes, you can wear lipstick at the beginning of the ride, just to make sure you don't lose your "prissiness".

And, of course, you can still match - just watch the light colors and white they don't do well off road.

Those friends of yours are going to have a hard time keeping you from being "prissy"

[BoPeep]

I can naswer that one....nop. I still have gravel in my elbow from a road crash that saw me over the handlebars and airborne into the gravel at the side of the road......25 years ago.


q, though,
I patched out on gravel a couple months ago on one knee, and though I debrided it as much as I could etc, and it healed fine, it looks like it's still got some black tattooing from the gravel debris... anyone know if that ever completely works its way out?[/QUOTE]

[Bluetree]

...I AM A MAN!!!

I went to pick up my race packet/bib number for tomorrow's 10k race and they couldn't find my packet at first. Turns out someone input my information into the Male category. burp They may not be able to change it before race time scratching myself and if not, to look for my time under Male 35-39. mmm beer Move over, Mr. Silver, there's a new Y Chromosome in town!

-- Boytree, formerly Bluetree