Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Interview from BoCoMo's Two Wheeled Rolling Circus of Fun, Fury and Fantasy.

Butthead is a complicated character, as one might expect from a guy known throughout the Midwest as Butthead. He has a sinister little grin that accompanies statements like “Strippers smell like strippers; someone like Skeletor could probably vividly describe the smell.”

BoCoMo lore states you are not part of the cast unless you have punched Butthead or seriously considered it.

Butthead himself claims his role is “antagonistic” and for dropping everyone.

“He’s the kinda of guy you can drop really bad one weekend, then [he’ll] come back the next weekend and tell you how bad he dropped you,” Fish said.

Baby USA injects, “He needs to pull because I am gonna vomit, and I haven’t vomited in eight years so it will be a moldy Jesus vomit…did I tell you about the time I ate 10 ice-cream sandwiches in….”

In case you wondered, Butthead got his name on a road trip to Colorado with Bunny Rhines and Kris Thompson. The details don’t really add much to this little yarn.

My first memories of Butthead are from the White Knuckle Classic in the mid-90’s while he was rolling on a Schwinn and sportin a bad dye job like a Festina Richard Virenque, full of truck stop nacho cheese and beer. Since then he has evolved into a grown-up.

Olly, the end part of Trolly, described him as “a sensitive man.”

“For example he used to have cankles when he was fat, I mean bigger,” she said. “And he is still sensitive if you bring up his cankles.”

I have seen a different Butthead in BoCoMo’s rolling sitcom: fixing less experienced riders’ flats, donating bikes to people just getting started, organizing rides and putting on a Halloween Cross Race.

Butthead has modest road goals this year with Butthead Junior (BJ) on the way. Butthead loves to ride, and BJ will probably have more miles in the trailer this summer than you’ll have pedaling which means he will drop you at a cross race.

8 comments:

Matt said...

awesome. this is hard-hitting journalism. that's what this is.

S. Smith said...

No doubt.

Butthead is an inspiration to me. The guy has a work ethic that is off the charts.

S. Smith said...

And, I wouldn't have even known about cyclocross if it hadn't been for him.

bocomo1969 said...

THE DUDE should have been interviewed for this one.

SPRINKLES said...

I am just going to repeat what I said from the last human interest piece.


"Butthead is a bad mamajama!”

also my tattoos have finally warshed(washed) off, I cried just a little bit.

ProPam said...

The Butthead also deserves credit for a good portion of the Rolling Sitcom lexicon: mexican echelon, collateral damage, knitting circle, Negator, Baby USA, Rule #1, etc.

His angry persona is legendary. I can't count the number of people who've asked me if Butthead really hates Huffy.

By the way, Butthead has been known to change flat tires on cars, as well as bikes.

byron said...

nice graphic.

I heard michael ball courting the Butt for the 'cross season.

SPRINKLES said...

I would like to elaborate some more after thinking a bit.
I like Josh but I have not figured out why yet. He was one of the first BoCo Mo riders I have rode with and has always treated me well. He does not sugar coat anything, and cuts straight to the meat of the subject.

One day I was complaining about my knees hurting, so he told me a story about how his knees hurt. And the best way to get rid of the pain is to not lock out your knees while you jerk your salami. Now I am pain free and feeling great.

Just remember its not easy being easy.