THE CROTCH PROBLEM
Bicycle Boys often make the mistake of trying to turn their
girlfriends into Bicycle Girls. Joanna, a woman who grew up on
Fifth Avenue and now works as an interior designer, actually
married a Bicycle Boy. "We both rode bikes," she said, "so at first it
wasn't a problem. But I noticed something was kind of wrong when
he gave me a bicycle seat for my birthday. Then, for Christmas, he
gave me a bike rack to put on the car. When we got divorced, he
took the bike rack back and kept it for himself. Can you believe
that?"
"Boys on bikes? God, no," said Magda, the novelist. "Can you
imagine what a stinky crotch they have? No, thank you. I've been
mowed down too many times by men on bikes. They're all
kamikaze selfish pricks. If they have sex the way they ride their
bikes, thank you, but speed is not important."
"Women don't think riding a bike is sexy," said Thad. "They
think it's infantile. But at some point, you decide that you can't go
through life giving women a false impression of who you are."