This is Edna,
Don't let her powder blue good-looks and quaint (click release) wicker basket charm fool you,
she is a member of the front line.
Edna is at the forefront of the battle against one of today's worst disease...yes folks she is a warrior against arsicus-grows-ever-fatticus.
(Side effects may include helmet hair, cuts and abrasions, and the closely related disease
arsicus-muchos-painus, which may in turn develop into arsicus-muchos- calloused. If pain persists suck it up princess !)
I'll keep you posted.
Don't let her powder blue good-looks and quaint (click release) wicker basket charm fool you,
she is a member of the front line.
Edna is at the forefront of the battle against one of today's worst disease...yes folks she is a warrior against arsicus-grows-ever-fatticus.
(Side effects may include helmet hair, cuts and abrasions, and the closely related disease
arsicus-muchos-painus, which may in turn develop into arsicus-muchos- calloused. If pain persists suck it up princess !)
I'll keep you posted.
Cheaper than lipo-suckes-outis. Love the basket.
ReplyDeleteSo, how much for the bike in 6 weeks when experimentus de-arses fails?
ReplyDeleteI'll start the bidding at $50 inc the basket
The labels on this post are possibly funnier than the post itself.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I can't actually ride a bike due to the debilitating disease never-learned-to-ride-a-bike-as-a-kid-coz-I-kept-falling-off-icus!
I have an adult sized tricycle. I get lots of funny looks when I ride that around town ... not that that has happened in the last 5 years!
Bumicus-enormicus!!
I have a cure - you need the arsicus-paddicus-lycracis-shorticus.
ReplyDeletethat looks just like the wizard of oz bike. so,,are you a good witch, or a bad witch?
ReplyDeleteJust keep pedalling honey, just keep pedalling x
ReplyDeleteIt sounds fabulous in theory but that basket is begging for some paté and yummy breads! Good for you though...watching Tour de France highlights at the moment (my hubby's idea, not mine) and those cyclists are like whippets. Take care and use both breaks not just the front one...you'll only do it once! Hope all is well :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Goodus-luckus!
ReplyDeleteSoooo....you need Edna coz.... you ate too many cup cakes at the tea party ??????
ReplyDeleteOhhhh...and I've just got a mental pic of you on Edna in Curly Pop's fashion suggestion riding along with Andi on her tricycle.....that would be great!!!!
I have that disease too, I'm liking your prescription, I need an industrial strength Edna to accommodate my derrière! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI tried bike riding in adult life when I was in Greece...ahh was seriously PETRIFIED.
ReplyDeleteLoved bike riding as a kid but as an adult I suck. My husband said I was riding so slow that gravity could take over.
This has got to be one of the funniest posts you've ever written, the labels cracked me up and so did some of the comments. All I can say is check your seat position, it can make the world of difference to a comfortable ride and reducing arsicus-muchos-painus!
ReplyDeleteEdna is beautiful. I'm sure she will be a great ally in your fight.
ReplyDeleteEdna is soooo pretty!
ReplyDeleteJodie, I love love love the basket. Must have one, is it a Ballarat purchase?
ReplyDeleteI love riding my bike to school with the kids, it is such a great chance to chat to them!!- although it does always result in one of them bawling for some reason or another??? I think arsicus grows ever fatticus is spreading!
She's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy new bike arrives on Friday so I'm very much into looking at pics of pretty bikes right now for basket/bag ideas.
I want to adorn my carrier with this beauty:
http://bikethreads.com/accessories/bags_and_packs/basil-rosa-double-bag
Happy riding!!
Love the bike and hoping it inspires you! I need a bit of that inspiration too... Watch out for those tram tracks (do they still exist in Ballarat? It's been ages - years in fact - since I was there!)
ReplyDeleteI think the dollies would like a ride in that basket!
ReplyDeletePerhaps if doctors used terms like arsicus fatticus people would be more likely to exercise. :o) Edna is a beauty. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteshe's a beauty!
ReplyDeleteOnce I fell off my bike in the middle of a busy main road (I was 8) and instead of picking me up and cuddling my poorly knees better my mum almost wet herself laughing. I've been afraid of bikes ever since.
You have brighten up my night. I have visions of a you peddling to work and then the walk from the bike to your office. lol lol Hope no one is watching you. lol
ReplyDeleteHave fun - hope the results are as beautiful as the medicine.
ReplyDeleteOH yes, love my bike complete with Wizard of Oz style basket on the front. Um, German Shepherd does not fit in there as well as Toto.
ReplyDeleteEdna, awesome name, thus my wholesale label Edna&AliceMay - my gorgeous grandmothers who were seamstresses of course!! Love Posie
Edna is divine
ReplyDeleteunlike my arsus is fatticus than your arsus
She's a beaut. Hope you become FIRM friends.
ReplyDeleteCan Edna come over for a play?
ReplyDeleteAre you picking me up on that tomorrow night? I don't think I will fit into that basket ..
ReplyDeleteShe is beautiful - I'll be tuned for the results - surely it is easy to be gorgeous when you have such a beatiful accessory. Enjoy
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I laughed more at your post or the reappearance of Mr Burley .
ReplyDeleteEdna is gorgeous! And I can hear her screaming that she wants an ADORABLE robot party in her basket!!!
ReplyDeletejust love it.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh - the labels had me laughing out loud for real!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy warrior in the arsicus-grows-ever-fatticus battles is called Marilyn.
Ready? Set... GO!!!
:)
heheheheehehehe have you got a pet or small child you could take along for company? you know, in the basket :)
ReplyDeleteI love the whole thing. I too suffer from this disease and have a vintage cruiser ( no gears) and an uphill route towing my children in a bike trailer! ARGH! the side effects are very painful indeed!
ReplyDeleteI think your labels are hilarious!
Way to go... I hope you resolve your medical condition at a quick pace!
She's beautiful. I hope she and your arsicus get along famously :p x
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Edna and your arse will get on fine! Just ride on through the pain!!!!
ReplyDeleteI laughed so hard my animals looked at me like I was crazy! Love your articus faticus machine - the basket could hold a whole bunch of eatable flowers ... no, yes?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I could ride again, but I have dirt roads with rocks and hills so I don't think I'm going to try it. Besides the dog would have to run beside it with a leash and I'm sure my articul faticus would really be sore!!!
~Yvette~
so nice!! it's just like a bike i was eyeing recently. the basket is great too.
ReplyDeletei suggested my hubby and i get bikes for mothers day and fathers day. still working out where the 3 and 1 year olds would go. wonder if they sell baskets that big . . .
Love the bike, she's very chic. The only thing that would make her chic-er would be an Ernst in her basket. :)
ReplyDeleteI wish it was safe to ride a bike around here but our roads are very narrow and hilly and have quite a bit of traffic. I refuse to load a bike into the car to go for a ride. That just seems wrong somehow. I used to ride a lot when I lived in flat Florida. Loved it, made me feel so free! Have fun with Edna, Jodie!
Wasn't Arsicus Fatticus the head of the Infamous Cyclicus Roman Legion?
ReplyDeleteYou need to stand and pedal so that your Gluteus Troppo Maximus (Arsicus Fatticus for Doctors) won't be Mucho Ouchus! Either that or walk, you get the exercise and yer bum hurts less! You could put Jude in the basket... then you'd have a ready made siren!!!
Jodie, you are so funny and fabulous! Only you can take a bicycle photo and be funny about it. My favorite funny bit I think (not only of this post but of your posts in general) has to be the labels. My Bum Hurts! Oh my side hurts from laughing. Bless you, funny, self-deprecating gift to the blogging world, you!
ReplyDeleteHeehee! You could buy Edna a sheep-skin saddle-cover...works wonders for that nasty ouchus arsus syndromme!!! Ask me how I know?!
ReplyDeleteYep, suck it up Princess!! hehe!
ReplyDeleteI do think we need to see photographic evidence of this side effect you call "helmet hair", you know just purely in the interest of science and all.
Bugger!!!! You mean riding a bike is the only cure for that disease???? Think I'll live with it for a bit longer....sigh. Do we get before and after photos of the offending part of your posterior......roflmol.
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Oh dear. I'm sure mine wouldn't fit on a bike seat. So it'd probably destined to stay as is for a while longer! ;) Good luck with your "suck it up princess" challenge!! I fell off my bike (with child in a baby seat on the back!) last year. Not keen to repeat the experience. Especially as my lovely father captured the whole event on video camera.
ReplyDeleteJust keep peddling away Jodie!You go girl!
ReplyDeleteHah!! Good luck with it :)
ReplyDeletelove Edna!x
ReplyDeleteOh Jodie, you have such a way with words. I just love her and the basket just tops it off. Look forward to more stories.
ReplyDeleteNo pain no gain chicky babe.... :D
ReplyDeleteWell, now you need a bell!
ReplyDeleteMy husband runs marathons( doesn't it make you want to vomit at the thought?) so while he is training I ride his mountain bike along side him and keep him company and tote his water. By the end of his marathon training I thought I had broken my tailbone. 20 miles all at once even at a really slow pace is AWFUL! So just remember, you will get used to it and it could be SO MUCH worse. :) Good job! Keep it up!
Just love the basket...I am jealous..will just have to get one...will have to dust the cobwebs off my bike as I have that disease as well...so you do not get so much arsicus-muchos-painus try a gel seat covered with a lambs wool cover...muchos-more-comfortius...keep pedalling..thanks for the best LOL of the day...LindaB
ReplyDeleteOooooh I have Edna envy!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for my belly laugh for the day Jodie. I'm not laughing of course at the thought of you riding high on Miss Edna, althouth that mental image did amuse me... your post and the comments were hilarious!!
ReplyDeleteHugs ~ Kerryanne
Edna is a deadset spunk! New bikes are so nice now, specially compared to the crappy one I've got from the 90s. I jealous. Hope your arse recovers soonicus.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you do get the calloused arsicus, get thee to Team Estrogen and buy some padded undershorts. They're not lycra. You wear them under your normal pants. They are soooo good.
ReplyDeleteLove Edna. My sky blue bicycle waves hi!
just one tip from a bike rider....invest in a small rear view mirror( for traffic..NOT YOURS! ) that goes on your handle bars. That way you won't be surprised by the big trucks and buses zooming past you. Saved my bacon many a time. :-)
ReplyDeleteEdna is devine.
ReplyDeleteI hope her basket is big enough to carry a bottle of grape juice with bubbles, dip and crackers. That would make the riding worth while and help with myarsehurtius.
rebecca
DO NOT RUB DEEPHEAT into your BUM.....Ice pack only!!! Just incase you didn't know!! lol xx
ReplyDeleteEdna is lovely. I do like the wicker basket, I must get one for my own two-wheeled friend.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes.
One word .....
ReplyDeleteGelseat.
Yes I know it's meant to be Gel Seat ... but then it wouldn't be just one word ;o).
Hugs,
Joy :o)
Hiya Jode - one thing I am always guaranteed when I read your blog...A massive grin. Whilst I fully empathise with the predicament you and your arse find yourselves in (I used to ride to work too)...I wanna hear a post from your bike, what does Miss Edna have to say about all of this exercise guff!!!
ReplyDeleteGeez! You wouldn't want to mess with her! She looks fiercely determined:)
ReplyDeleteWish I'd bought an "Edna" instead of my "manbike"...which has me bent over so much that I get a back ache...Edna looks so much easier and heaps more fun to ride....
ReplyDeleteI have that disease in one of its forms. Mine is stomachus-grows-ever-fatticus.
ReplyDeleteRide like the wind Jodie. She's a beauty.
ReplyDeleteSnickering away whilst staunchly sitting on my own arsicus (stuffing mouthicus) over here.
ReplyDeleteI think The Punisher has a crush
ReplyDeleteYou've just made my morning!
ReplyDeleteYou're a cracker Jodie!
Thanks
P.S Love the colour
Gorgous bike and post Jodie!
ReplyDeleteLast year a passer by complimented my "great bike, it's so retro!" No - it's not RETRO it's my sister's old bike - actually about 25 years OLD!!! So old it's back in style again!
Have fun! And good luck!
Dianne.
Love this post! Love Edna!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Tonja
Hurrah! Bike riding is so fun and can def. help with the arse. I do want to say if the saddle is continually uncomfortable or your knees or shoulders hurt after a few weeks of riding, please visit the bike shop and ask for help adjusting it. You might have to buy different bits, but it will be worth it. Once it's set up perfectly, it will last a long time.
ReplyDeleteYou need padded cycling pants you do. Apparently they work.
ReplyDeleteI say apparently, as my off-roady version of Edna has barely had contact with my arsicus meganormousica since Mr Moog bought her for me four years ago.
According to the expert Mr Moog, just owning a bike is not as good for decreasing the size of one's arse as actually riding it is. If I could find a way to cycle and knit I'm sure I'd be as thin as a rake.
Maybe the pain decreases as the arsicus diminishes in size?
You almost lost me at the quick release basket business - that seriously impressed me and I had a moment of reverie at the thought of what I could do with a quick release basket.....
Looking forward to hearing more of your travels with Edna :)
Moogs xxx
Edna is lovely! Happy bicycling.
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