Breehy's Back! Let the Good Times Roll (get it? roll? as in wheels? rolling down the road?)

After spending over a year in the basement porch, suffering in silence with a flat tire, Breehy finally gets a hospital visit. Covered with cobwebs, dust bunnies and crackling leaves (the porch is not an enclosed porch - well, it has a roof as it is beneath the patio that leads from the kitchen door, and a bit of a half wall, but it is a part of the house that I don't sweep, dust, or wash every few months like the rest of the place), Steve wriggles her into the trunk of the car, and off we go to Rocky Cycle.

This reminds me of the time I bought a huge wooden glider chair from the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Richmond. We had a witty bitty Hyundai Pony at the time - but Steve somehow got the chair in. That was the last large item I asked him to transport in a small vehicle. Howard would have just left the chair on the sidewalk and told me to rock it home. However -

She looks quite helpless there, doesn't she?

Poor Breehy looks a bit out of place here, too, among all these way more expensive bikes.

The nice young man took a look at her, tapped on his calculator a few times, and asked,

'How much did you pay for her?'

Well, I knew it was no good to lie, as the Zellers' price tag from about 6 years ago was still on the frame.

'$150.'

He was nice enough not to burst out laughing, so I continued,

'She may not be expensive, but she's world-famous.'

I don't think he believed me, as he probably never read my blog. If he had read it, he would have recognized her right away.

He gave us a quote, and Steve asked if that would make her as good as new. He assured us it would make her better than new, as an 18-year old kid working for Zellers probably put her together in the beginning. 

We wouldn't even ask if we could watch him work .... and I'm glad no one tried to repair the tire in the beginning.

So now, everything works - nice firm tires, new cables, and a new odometer on the handlebars. Chain shipshape, and all the cobwebs cleaned off. 

I would have liked to see him take her for her test drive though.

But a huge thanks to Steve and Rocky Cycle - now we'll be able to go exploring again!