Today I attended VeloSwap, an annual event in the Denver area that attracts thousands of people to the Place Next to the Denver Colliseum That I Can’t Rember the Name of.
You go in, you pay your eight bucks, and you collect your free copy of VeloNews. Then you walk past a sea of people walking out with rims and tires hanging from their shoulders, mountain bike forks three in each hand.
You got there late.
I was toying with the idea of attending this event all week and at the last minute decided to shoot down to Denver to check it out. After making a wrong turn off I-25 and touring north Denver’s interstate trucking infrastructure, I arrived at Veloswap around 3PM, after the Madness of Opening Hours had ended. I still had a good time.
There were the bike shops, with their formal booths, of course. And there was New Belgium Brewery, with their stands selling overpriced Fat Tire Pale Ale. But soon after all that bullshit, you got to the back, where there were still probably hundreds of private individuals with booths selling off all their accumulated veloshit that was taking up too much space in their garage.
I felt vindicated when I saw an Independent Fabrications Planet X cyclocross bike (the same bike I bought on an eBay auction last month) for two grand, when I got mine for less than half that. Of course that bike was still for sale at that price, but I digress.
The entire joint was crawling with the cycling subculture. You had the skinny, CliffBar-eating freaks, the bolt-through-the-ear-downhill-mountain-bike-freakazoids, the shorts-and-long-sleeve-shirt+ski-cap-wearing-nut-eating-nuts, the recumbent-bike-riders and the bike sluts all assembled under one roof, and it was a fun show.
Tell me more about these “bike sluts”….
Tell me more about these “bike sluts”….
Sorry about the double post, but both times I got a page full of php errors:
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I’d say there’s something a touch wrong with your Spam Karma installation.
Yikes! I dunno what the problem was there, Paul. I just posted a test comment and it worked fine. (If anyone has trouble posting comments, please let me know. I’m sure I’m overdue for upgrades on WprdPress as well as Spam Karma anyway. Maybe it was busy deleting a comment spam at the time of your posts; I seem to be getting more of that lately.)
As for these bikesluts: bikesluts are chicks who dig cyclists, and they dress accordingly. There were two in particular who were trolling the show together, wearing matching USA team jerseys, unzipped to the maximum, and denim skirts also shortened to the maximum (in both directions). We crossed paths a couple of times and every time I saw them they were flirting with one of the aforementioned bolt-through-the-ear downhill mountain bike types.
Bikesluts. You gotta love it.
I’ve just found my new aspiration in life… I wanna be a bike slut! I, afterall, do love cyclists! hahahahah
I was at VeloSwap in the afternoon. I think I saw one bikeslut — she was prancing around with some torn clothing straight from Flash Dance. There were also two booth babes. I’m one of the skinny Clif-bar-eating freaks.
If you want to see skin and bikes, check out:
http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=6120
Rob,
I get the same PHP warnings that Paul reported.
Regarding the bikesluts — I just read Rob’s response to Paul and just realized that I identified the bikesluts as boothbabes. I saw them too and I thought they were working a booth, but maybe not.
Hey “Phred”. Yeah, boothbabes. That’s the term I remember from the days when I actually went to Interbike. Bikeslut was a term I just threw out there (like cliff bar-eating freak). I’m certain the two boothbabes you saw are the bikesluts to which I refer. =8-)
Sorry about the PHP errors my comment system is throwing at everyone, I’ll look at it soon, I promise.
When I was seriously into cycling (way back in the 80’s) I never once saw a bike slut, but I always did appreciate the view when riding in a training pace line behind a well-toned female rider in bike shorts. . .
Now, boothbabes on the other hand I have seen! They are at ALL of the trade shows.