Hodala is a Taiwanese toast that means, “To the bottom” and a good analogy for drinking beer and racing your bike. A bike that your throw up on your back, run with, and destroy in the mud. The cheer is also the name of a “ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest–for a shining planet–wait that’s the intro to Battlestar Galactica … Still applicable though to Single Speeders who, as a niche of a niche, are a dedicated, rebellious group riding bikes like the Raleigh High Life and led by Raleighs Sally, the marketing manager for Raleigh.
We weren’t at a mall, he wasn’t in a Santa suit, and I wasn’t sitting on his lap giving him a Xmas list, but a week later, I get a text that a frame is ready. “What?” He must’ve pulled this one from his personal stash, cause they only make about 50 a year.
“coming to get it and can I have a pony too?”
Yesterday, I handed Mark V the High Life frame and the Tricross Specialized got us last year. Like a Freakbike Apothecary with a mortar and pestle mashing a frame with bike and parts from his stash, he made this
and I’m racing it today.
Note for Starcrossed and SSXCWC it’s single speed. The rest of the races I’m on the Redline Conquest Team.
Hodala Tattoo from One Gear One Mind, Nat Pellman’s Single Speed Endurance Forum