A great bike mechanic is your best friend when...
With numerous entries into the SheSpoke Cycle Wear Facebook and Twitter competition, we were left laughing and giggling at your efforts to win a pair of women's cycle gloves, by finalising the sentence 'a great bike mechanic is your best friend when ….'.
The winner was Elizabeth Wieland from Queensland with her entry "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when you realise your bike can't stand on its own because it's too tyred."
Here are some of the entries we received. Hope you get a smile from them. We did!
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when blu tack just won't stick anymore."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when only he will remain looking interested when you cry little tears over that tiny scratch."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when you obsess over seat height and knee angles."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when he doesn't mind pumping your tyres once a week to EXACTLY 105 psi, cause your pump just isn't as good."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when cause he doesn't even twitch when you arrive looking less than glam, red faced, sweating, hair ripped back, gasping for water cause your bottles are empty, then politely fall on the floor and then ask to rest out the back?"
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when he gives you entry forms for the up and coming bike event just in case you misplaced yours."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when you can't find the sticky tape."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when baling twine just won't work anymore."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when you are on a long ride and far from home."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when he gives you entry forms for the up and coming bike event just in case you misplaced yours."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when your sexy ass is too numb to get off the bike and pump the tyres, cos you've been riding for so long."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when he understands what you are talking about when you describe the problem with sound effects even though he knows what you are on about."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when your husband refuses to fix another one o f your punctures."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when it takes four hours to put my bike in a bike bag."
- "A great bike mechanic is your best friend when he doesn't mind how many times you come into the shop to chat, ask for the tyre to be changed AGAIN coz "I've got another flat - why does that always happen to me!", have to listen to you rant and rave over little things when he has so much to do, but stills tops to listen and looks up to see you come through the door once again with a friend to ask about bikes, gear etc and grins rather than grimaces."and rave over little things when he has so much work to do but still stops to listen, looks up to see you come through the door ONCE AGAIN with either a friend to ask about bikes, gear, etc and grins rather than grimace - oh ! the boys are always good value. and rave over little things when he has so much work to do but still stops to listen, looks up to see you come through the door ONCE AGAIN with either a friend to ask about bikes, gear, etc and grins rather than grimace - oh ! the boys are always good value.
- Is your best friend cause he doesn't even twitch when you arrive looking less than glam, red faced, sweating, hair ripped back ,, gasping for water cause your bottles are empty, then politely fall on floor ,, to rest out the back please







