Real name: Laura

Where do you live? Everett, Washington

Explanation of your handle: a failure to realize that I’d typed my e-mail address in the blank for my handle…

Explanation of your avatar: utter ineptitude when it comes to the web: see above

Age (general or specific) 43

Occupation: Artist- on good days, slovenly housewife on the bad ones

Favorite bike: not sure

What's in your stable? A Diamondback Hybrid (openly sneered at in the finest bike shops in the northwest)

Fastest speed on a road bike? Well, my fastest speed on my hybrid was somewhere around 19 mph—and that was screaming downhill on the Centennial trail near Arlington, WA

Another picture of yourself or your ride? Neither of us is photogenic and have repeatedly declined to be photographed


What is the biggest lie you've ever told: “That was the best one ever, Hon!”

Most memorable moment on my bike: well, while I was busy screaming down above mentioned hill at my best speed ever, I managed to spook an approaching horse, which reared on its hind legs (just like in the movies!) and skittered across the path in front of me. Luckily, the rider was skillful enough not to be thrown, and also to avoid our imminent collision (by inches!) by regaining control of the horse and guiding it swiftly back onto the proper path.

Most fun ever had on a bike? Around the age of ten I used to go screaming down the hill in front of my child hood home on my purple Spyder bike in my favorite dress with a huge sash and bow flapping wildly behind me. I would climb the hill again and again, stopping only after the sash of my dress got caught in the chain, making nasty greasy marks that had to be hidden. Recently when My husband bought me a new bike, I was delighted to see that it was a purple one. I snatched it away from him as he lifted it out of the van and jumped on it right then and there and went screaming down our street with my wind breaker flapping behind me and the neighbors looking at me as if I were insane; ever the 43 year old little girl. It felt like something that was out of synch got back into synch; it was a very joyous moment.