We were on these wicked bikes and everything just goes down the drain.

The best bike I've ever been on is now gone.

There's a whirlpool developing with a drain down at the bottom, and no one is sure where it goes. It just seems to be swirling faster and faster, and everyone touching this thing is afraid they're going to be sucked in.

It is a drain,

He goes bike riding with them, sometimes hopping on their bikes looking like a clown in a circus.

When he goes, we go, more or less.