Cyclokairos

You create the fictions you want to believe. In a life that is fantasy, I am the purveyor of cyclokairos bikes. The Blue Bike is an archetypal cyclokairos bike.

A steel frame; wide tyres clothed with mudguards (that have flaps); a rapid rise rear derailleur shifted by friction; a saddle that’s leather; rim brakes; and plenty of silver. Each bike monikered with a sticker on the seat tube.

A sticker that matches the shellacked bar tape and twine.

Cyclokairos came from a play on cyclocross. The latter as full on as bike riding gets; the former something more sedate in manner. Kairos is a moment time, in particular that which lifts you beyond the ‘clock time’ of kronos. The word ‘chaos’ derives from kairos, and if kronos is horizontal in nature, a measure of procession, then kairos is vertical, a disruption of kronos and the domination it so easily wields. You need to judge your life on experiences, kairos, not how long or short it is, kronos.