What motivates you to ride?
09-16-14, 02:55 PM
#101
Tractorlegs
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: El Paso, TX
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I only live two miles from the school where I've worked for 25 years, so even when I DID ride a bike I couldn't really call it "commuting", hardly broke a sweat, hardly had to worry about bike maintenance; even a creaky, poorly shifting bike would do just fine.
A year ago I told my wife I was going to ride my bike to New York over the following summer. Seemed like lunacy; 2,000 miles at least. To prep I started taking longer detours to work... seven miles one way at first, then ten, then twelve, finally started to limit out time-wise at eighteen and twenty five miles one way. Longer miles also meant having a good-running bike was important, so I began to learn about bike maintenance and refurbishing the fine old bikes I had.
Here's my victory photo from late July, 33 days and 2,000 miles from home....
At 57, I discovered I still had athletic abilities I had no idea I had, and feel MUCH better on days when I ride. So now its part of my lifestyle, for as long as I still can.
Mike
A year ago I told my wife I was going to ride my bike to New York over the following summer. Seemed like lunacy; 2,000 miles at least. To prep I started taking longer detours to work... seven miles one way at first, then ten, then twelve, finally started to limit out time-wise at eighteen and twenty five miles one way. Longer miles also meant having a good-running bike was important, so I began to learn about bike maintenance and refurbishing the fine old bikes I had.
Here's my victory photo from late July, 33 days and 2,000 miles from home....
At 57, I discovered I still had athletic abilities I had no idea I had, and feel MUCH better on days when I ride. So now its part of my lifestyle, for as long as I still can.
Mike
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Trikeman
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09-16-14, 05:44 PM
#102
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My many nephews up there knew I was coming, but didn't know HOW I was coming. When I showed up nonchalantly on my bike I became Coolest Uncle FOREVER 
To access my tour blog google on...... Nothing Hard is Ever Easy: A Bicycle Tour Attempt
(disregard the crazyguyonabike hits, I ain't updated that yet, go to the 24hourcampfire one)
disclaimer ..it IS on a Redneck hunting and fishing site, and all the views expressed therein are not necessarily my own.
Last edited by Sharpshin; 09-16-14 at 05:47 PM.
