I Really Do Live In Portland: Finally A Friend Opens A Bike Shop

Recumbent PDX: Coming to 2025 Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard soon.

I've been called a poser many times in my life. For failure of style, attitude, manner, and deportment. I take it in stride. I realize I am a special snowflake.

Occasionally events happen that cause me to challenge such beliefs.

Recently a friend announced he planned to open a (recumbent) bike store. Ahhh, I do live in Portland! 

I have long suffered at parties where the guests regale each other with twee anecdotes about their colorful bike-shop-owning friends, while I sat in a corner stymied and glowering.

No longer!  

I plan on earning the coveted "Most Annoying Customer" award by hanging out way too much when the doors finally open. I'm not going to let this opportunity go to waste.

More on this story as it develops.