Will we be around long enought to see the story of Yehuda’s arm?? Let’s hope this is the bad alternate reality that doesn’t happen, but the real one is both men cycling off into the sunset laughing together, the only creaks being from old chain links in need of lubrication.
Bad alternate reality? I’ll find it a happy thing if I’m still biking when I’m in my 90s and if the world hasn’t been devastated by war, global warming, or some unforeseen problem.
You need’nt worry about global warming…. now that the scientest have been unearthed and the scam has FINALLY reached some sort of main stream, we can finally put to rest al gore’s invention of global warming.
Judging from the way Yehuda yelled JOE?! I would say he lost his arm unsuccessfully trying to save Joe from some horrible accident. Or maybe I’ve read too many DC comics.
I want a giant print of the frame with joe riding through the space/time continuum… I’d actually get two, one for my workspace at the shop, one for my home. Hoo Boy!
Of course Yehuda’s not riding with a prosthetic — they make them out of carbon fiber nowadays! He probably keeps it at the shop (and another one at home for handling hot dishes while cooking).
This is clearly an alternate reality, in 60 years (when oil is scarce) we won’t be driving flying cars, we’ll be riding bikes and pulling carts. Most likely plowing by hand too.
The best wrench ever at my LBS had a hand missing. Plus he could ride a century on a road bike that he modified. Too bad he went to college and got a “better” job. My wheels could use truing!
Ben’s on the case. The beard, the missing arm, the crunchy outfit and matching politics…. Yehuda, like Travis Morgan, is yet another Oliver Queen doppelganger!
Yehuda! Your Arm!!! What Happened?!
Will we be around long enought to see the story of Yehuda’s arm?? Let’s hope this is the bad alternate reality that doesn’t happen, but the real one is both men cycling off into the sunset laughing together, the only creaks being from old chain links in need of lubrication.
Maybe it was a terrible accident involving the attempted repair of a fixed gear bicycle.
Bad alternate reality? I’ll find it a happy thing if I’m still biking when I’m in my 90s and if the world hasn’t been devastated by war, global warming, or some unforeseen problem.
You need’nt worry about global warming…. now that the scientest have been unearthed and the scam has FINALLY reached some sort of main stream, we can finally put to rest al gore’s invention of global warming.
2009 was a simpler time.
No prosthetic?
Better ride a recumbent when you have one arm. Much more relaxed!
Judging from the way Yehuda yelled JOE?! I would say he lost his arm unsuccessfully trying to save Joe from some horrible accident. Or maybe I’ve read too many DC comics.
Any time you work
CRRKKLLLL ZPOK!
into art or casual conversation
It’s a good day
The “CRRKKLLLL ZPOK!” is very reminiscent of Bill Watterson’s work in Calvin & Hobbs… circa Scientific Progress goes “Boink” Nice nod Rick, I approve!
It’s a great feeling, isn’t it Joe? Just don’t fool yourself about it taking any great speed.
“. . . both men cycling off into the sunset . . .”
Just what every bicycle needs, a perfectly mismatched pair of cranks.
KFG
I didn’t think a rider could reach 88 miles per hour without a flux capacitor!
Liked it until I noticed Yehuda’s arm. Now I feel sad. Shucks.
@fred_dot_u …and a really hot cup of tea!
@fred_dot_u: No, the flux capacitor doesn’t kick in till you hit 88mph.
And then you’re gonna see some serious s#!t.
Yea, flux capacitors and 88MPH immediately came to my mind also – but where did the Grail end up?
I want a giant print of the frame with joe riding through the space/time continuum… I’d actually get two, one for my workspace at the shop, one for my home. Hoo Boy!
He got dropped on a group ride just last week, and *now* he can go fast enough to travel through time? What happened to the realism?
@Paul Metz: Joe bonked. Everything after the first three frames are his hallucinations.
“No prosthetic?”
Of course not. Yehuda is too “old school” for that!
@Paul Metz: Special High Intensity Training my friend, Special High Intensity Training!
Guys, I think we’re missing something more ominous than Yehuda’s missing arm…
Yehuda was SURPRISED to see Joe… WHY?
I have the sinking feeling both Yehuda and Joe were involved in some kind of accident and that Joe lost more than an arm…
May be it’s just because JOe still looks young after 60 years !
Naw, John, Yehuda was just surprised by the color of Joe’s hair.
I’m wondering if the presence of flying “cars” means that the roads have been left for cyclists…
Of course Yehuda’s not riding with a prosthetic — they make them out of carbon fiber nowadays! He probably keeps it at the shop (and another one at home for handling hot dishes while cooking).
Yehuda is surprised to see Joe, because Joe disappeared 60 years earlier…
Dreaming. Right?
This is clearly an alternate reality, in 60 years (when oil is scarce) we won’t be driving flying cars, we’ll be riding bikes and pulling carts.
Most likely plowing by hand too. 
@ Paul Metz
What part of bicycle induced time travel and realism don’t you get?
holy shit in the weekend i also biked with just one left arm. i had a cardoor opened in front of me a couple of weeks ago, and not recovered yet
@Michael R
Yehuda is old-school, remember? He’d probably disdain the use of a high-tech prosthetic.
The best wrench ever at my LBS had a hand missing. Plus he could ride a century on a road bike that he modified. Too bad he went to college and got a “better” job. My wheels could use truing!
Ben’s on the case. The beard, the missing arm, the crunchy outfit and matching politics…. Yehuda, like Travis Morgan, is yet another Oliver Queen doppelganger!
Great strip!
Hope the clocks panel ends up on the merchandise page.
Rick just got tired of all the “disembodied midget hand” comments and decided to work in disembodiment.
@winyo
Pretty sure we all bike with just one left arm. Sorry to hear about the dooring though…a speedy recovery to you
allusion to an accident in the near future?
Yehuda would never use a prosthetic! if he did it would be a good old fashioned peg-arm or hook.