I've been fortunate to not have any issues sideline me for more than a week or so, but the feeling of getting back on a bike is an incredible thing, deserving of song.
Kicked this around mentally on the trail a bit, finally wrote it down. Deserved response? Crickets. But if someone else wants to sing this in their head or shower, or someone with some vocal chops wants to pick it up and make a stupid video that would do my heart good.
Weird Al does AC/DC, you know the song, I was about as lazy with the lyric changes as possible. It really only occurred to me because that laziness was possible.
"
Back on bike
Or on a trike
It's been to long, so happy it's like
Spinning loose
As a goose
On the north shore squaukin' about
I've been looking at the sky
Cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse cause I'll never drive
I've got zip tied
Cateye
Cranking through my personal bests and running wild
'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
Well, I'm back on bike
Yes, I'm back on a bike
Back on track
You know I'm jacked
Fastest pathlete on the trail, he got a power pack?
Nope, drinking tang
With my gang
You've got to catch me if you want me to hang
Then I'm looping the track
And I'm beatin' the clock
Nobody's gonna get me on another lap
So look at me now
I'm just makin' my play
Don't try to push your luck, just get out of my way
'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
Well, I'm back on bike
Yes, I'm back on a bike
Well, I'm back, yes I'm back
Well, I'm back, yes I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Ho yeah
Oh yeah
Yes I am
Oh yeah, yeah oh yeah
Back in now
Well I'm back, I'm back
Back, (I'm back)
Back, (I'm back)
Back, (I'm back)
Back, (I'm back)
Back
Back on bike
Yes I'm back on bike
Ninja'n out of the sight
"
byogman
2015-10-14 10:34:24
Whoops, missed a couple "back on bike" for "back in black" substitutions at the end of the second chorus, you get the idea.
byogman
2015-10-14 10:47:56
All you need to do is find a great guitarist and a bad vocalist and you're set!
mick
2015-10-14 11:41:31
heh. you said "tang".
I don't think my kids know what that is.
Something to do with the Apollo program, am I right?
vannever
2015-10-14 11:58:23
Existed before, but popularized by the Apollo program. Not especially bikey, but geek cred drink that rhymes with gang, had to use it.
I actually never ran with a cateye or went to a track and did a lap (unless you count tootling around the oval on try a bike day), just fit "cats eyes" and "nobody's gonna beat me on another rap" too well.
I'm also sure there's a strava segment joke that'd be way better on the "power pack" line than the pathlete thing, though trying too hard to go kinda fast on the trail is a badge of shame I wear with perverse pride and I felt I ought to own a bit more of the experience I was laughing about.
byogman
2015-10-14 12:27:31