It’s one thing to gain recognition for being a designer, or a car nut, but getting recognition for being into riding bicycles is SO strange and not quite sitting well with me at all (I find it very funny).
I was just on Farkin (yes the forum I was banned on) and someone had brought up an old thread of mine on the 1997 Specialized single speed. I checked the views on that thread and 20,972 people had viewd it! I then clicked on the button which lists the threads on Farkin by order of how many views they’ve had and it turns out that my threads are some of the most viewed threads on Farkin history. The Ti project thread has had 30,955 views! That’s scary as I’ve only been posting there since March last year.
My thread views on Farkin. Out of control. Click for a full sized view.
I’ve also realised that a lot of the hits come from other blogs. 2 blogs worth mentioning (they’re haunts of mine) are Chirosangaku, a tumblr site which linked my Kuwahara the other day. That brought a smile to my face as I love what he posts on his site a lot. HKFixed have also plugged my road bike, that’s amazing as they never plug road bikes with gears (they only plug fixed gears).
Then there’s the really funny stuff. The stuff I hear over the phone, MSN or in real life. I was just finishing up a ride at Manly Dam and I saw a lady with a pink yeti. I’d seen it before at MCC and had a little chat with her and a guy next to us said G’day and said he worked at a bike shop and that I’d contacted him about a Bianchi (I was looking for one for Christina). I had no idea how he knew what I looked like considering I’d talked to him over the phone but then I realised he was wearing a farkin T-Shirt!
Then there’s the call from Zi, laughing his ass off. He’d just finished a ride at Loftus where some young kids on the trail pulled him over and asked him if he was Justin Fox from farkin?! HAHAHAA.
Matt got me on MSN and said that when he was getting fitted up at Blackman Cycles for his Scott carbon road bike the shop keeper said he knew of me as well?! Kelvin also bought a bike from Glebe’s Inner City Cycles and he said the guy in there knows of me as well.
And to top if off I get a mail from this dude Dittmar, He and his partner Ozlem wanted to interview me about bikes for an upcomming magazine they’re working on.
It’s all a bit funny, and a bit scary too. As if my head wasn’t big enough as it is?!