PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz
SHOW ME THE BENJAMINS
You’re going to do WHAT??! Ride in the Tour de France? Are you crazy? You get winded reading an exciting novel. Who do you think you are, Lance Armstrong? You don’t have the legs for it.
No, what I do have is a new kind of bicycle invented by my nephew. He says that it passes all current regulations, but will make urban cycling so easy that Grandma could do it. They’ll change the regs for next year, but even if I just finish the race, both the bike and I will be famous, and his sales will take off.
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Great one! I adore dialogue – brings the characters immediately to life!!
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I hope it shows the enormous potential – both of embarrassing failure, or victorious vindication. And a few bucks in a start-up company’s coffers won’t hurt.
Thanx for the kind comment. 🙂
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Great take on the prompt, if the bike’s as good as he reckons he should do well.
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He and his nephew will be wheeling and dealing. 🙂
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Dear Archon,
I wish him all the best. 😉 You left me wanting to know how he does in the race.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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You’ll have to wait till….when do they run the next one? Spring??! 😯
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From one cycleholic to another, good luck. Don’t forget to stretch!
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It’s a good thing that this is fiction. It would be a stretch to imagine that I’d try it. 😆
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Well done! I wish him luck. I’d hate to try riding the thing.
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I see several local cyclists on recumbent bicycles during good weather. I just don’t understand how they work. 😕
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Indeed… sometimes inventions just need exposure to make success.. good luck
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Yes, to be seen can be very important. I’m glad you’ve seen this post. 🙂
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And… he’s really in it for his nephew. That’s one kind of backer he needs! Let us know how he does… 😉
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Even now, he’s exercising his hands – to help count all the profits. 😉
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Imaginative and entertaining 🙂
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Why, thank you, m’dear. 🙂
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SHOW ME THE BENJAMINS – love the title
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Thank you for noticing that. I mashed two movies together to get it.
Feel free to drop by again. 🙂
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Now that’s what we call making hay while the sun shines. Lovely take.
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I’m glad that you liked it. 🙂
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Oh, I’d like to see this story play out! I suspect the nephew is pulling his leg. The Tour de France involves some steep hills, if I’m not mistaken.
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Oh no! Within this fiction, the nephew is quite serious. Like Science Fiction, where the author doesn’t have to explain or prove Faster-Than-Light space travel, I only have to claim that this contraption will work. 😉
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True. Authors have wonderful liberty. And, as Mrs Malaprop would say,
“The proof of the bike is in the pedaling — or peddling.” 🙂
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I just did a double-take….or was that you? 😆
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I’m all for making cycling easier. Good fun 🙂
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Thanx for another visit. 🙂
I rode a bicycle to/from work during warmer weather, whenever the car was needed elsewhere, well into my 60s.
Going in wasn’t too bad. It was 4 Km of small hills, with each lower than the last. Coming home, tired, after a shift at an auto-parts plant….??! 😯 All uphill, each one a little higher than the last. I could have used a gadget like this, to be an easy rider.
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Nice one
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Thanx for the kind words….and welcome to my insanity. 🙂
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