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Subscription Guy
11-15-2002, 04:08 PM
You ask
Why only one gear
Must be so hard

I reply
Why so many gears
Must be so easy
Rotifer
11-15-2002, 08:55 PM
Ah, but the singlespeed experience must be condensed to haiku. Alas, I am not up to the challenge. Great poem.
wooglin-at-home
11-15-2002, 10:57 PM
My humble effort:

Glide effortlessly.
Heart pounds legs strain and mind clears.
Leaves crunch in silence.
hairygrump
11-18-2002, 03:27 PM
Cars need multiple gears
because the engine can only work so hard
I just need the one


Lack of advantage isn't disadvantage
Lack of advantage is work.
DancingBear
11-19-2002, 05:11 PM
Hi everybody!
My bicycle love runs deep
I am DancingBear

I am new to here
I often post on the net
I like custom bikes

Cruisers are the best
Versatility untappped
Simple Speedy Style

I am a bike nut
I call my SS The Plow
Gearies sit unused

Ok, since the introduction is out of the way, here are my singlespeed haikus:

Complexity free
One ratio must serve all
Momentum is king

Harmoniously
Power transfers between rings
I become The Plow:D
mtnsparky
12-08-2002, 01:58 PM
:D new to the forum, bin' onespeeding for years. go for a night ride on your single by yourself, and you'll know zen.
Scooter Nogrady
12-13-2002, 07:58 PM
Very very wise poem grasshopper. Me think I like to agree with simple vision. Focus on what you are doing, not how you are shifting. Now less typey and more ridey.
JRA
12-17-2002, 02:41 AM
A haiku is a three line poem with the first line having 7 syllables, the second 5 and the third 7 at least that's the way I remember it being explained

Straining up the singletrack
Silence surrounds me
At the top awaits release
wooglin
12-17-2002, 10:40 AM
Originally posted by JRA
A haiku is a three line poem with the first line having 7 syllables, the second 5 and the third 7 [I]at least that's the way I remember it being

hai·ku n. pl. haiku, also hai·kus

1. A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
2. A poem written in this form.

:)
Tim
12-17-2002, 12:49 PM
It can be annoying when rhyming couplets stick in your head during a long run or epic ride. I made a poem out of this one.

(Burn Spot)

I wake in spinning ecstasy
just eddie, the bikes the hill and me
between the car and us four thousand feet.

my vision clears, my breath is hot
newton'd figs by eddie brought
help tired legs which I enraptured wrought.

We mount and ride the treeless ground,
but soon enough my 'ttention's bound
as ahead the trail drops a corner 'round.