Every conversation we have, whether we’re chatting about death or marriage or chafing in unmentionable places, is punctuated with shouts of “slowing!” and “cracks centre!” and “debris right!”
I’m riding next to a Tour de Rock teammate who’s describing the moment he watched his father take his last breath.
We ride in twos and switch lead riders often, moving clockwise as the first rider on the left overtakes the right. The regular switches help keep our legs fresh, but they leave only a few minutes for each conversation before someone yells “switching!” and I don’t get to hear the rest of Barrow’s story about his father.
Conversations in the peloton go from light to deep to downright silly, complete with inexplicable accents and entire personas born from nothing but too much time spent together.
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