Your Simplest Pleasures Cycling ? ?
03-13-07, 08:38 PM
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The feeling of a perfectly setup bike and the balance and comfort it allows.
The smell of the air after rain... wild roses and honey suckles in the summer along the road side.
The warm sun on your back after a long cold winter.
The sound of my cleats clicking in.
The hiss of the tires rolling along.
The sensation of dancing up hills that used to wear me out.
Just looking at how beauitful my bikes are.
The smell of the air after rain... wild roses and honey suckles in the summer along the road side.
The warm sun on your back after a long cold winter.
The sound of my cleats clicking in.
The hiss of the tires rolling along.
The sensation of dancing up hills that used to wear me out.
Just looking at how beauitful my bikes are.
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Here are my favorite simple pleasures riding near my home.
- Riding on a warm Wyoming morning with a couple of antelope pacing you and then leaving you behind.
- Riding near the Little Laramie River and having gold finches flying along at the same speed.
- Riding at 45-50 mph around the curves coming down Woods Creek Canyon.
- Riding on a warm Wyoming morning with a couple of antelope pacing you and then leaving you behind.
- Riding near the Little Laramie River and having gold finches flying along at the same speed.
- Riding at 45-50 mph around the curves coming down Woods Creek Canyon.
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Haiku
Cresting blue mountains
I roll silently homeward
To beer and a nap
Cresting blue mountains
I roll silently homeward
To beer and a nap
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This thread is so friggin' wussi-fied, it's gonna to make me sick! 
C'mon people, let's get real! When was the last time you blew past a 65 year old grandma on the bike path? And did you turn and give her "the look" when you did it???
C'mon people, let's get real! When was the last time you blew past a 65 year old grandma on the bike path? And did you turn and give her "the look" when you did it???
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03-13-07, 10:04 PM
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Pie!!!!
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Originally Posted by Big Paulie
Ha! I post two photos of riders not wearing helmets, and 10 minutes have passed without anyone freaking out! How's that for a zen moment, C.C. ??? 
PUT ON YOUR HELMET BIG PAULIE
STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES
(way better than smelling those antelope if the wind is from the wrong direction - they smell like - well - like billy goats)
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OK, let me get in the spirit of the thing and try my hand...
Crisp sunrise morning
Flat tire greets me at dawn
At least it's the front
Crisp sunrise morning
Flat tire greets me at dawn
At least it's the front
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Gliding past cars stuck in traffic.
A favorite ride in the St Louis area is Calhoun County during apple picking season. The way back is via the Golden Eagle Ferry across the Mississippi River. Traffic will be backed up for a couple of miles waiting for the opportunity to fit onto the ferry. I think that the ferry round trip takes 30 or 40 minutes so the wait can be hours. If you're on a bicycle, however, you just coast (it's downhill) past all of the stopped cars to the ferry landing. After they load as many cars onto the ferry as will fit, the ferry staff will signal us bicyclists to crowd between the cars wherever we'll fit. Bicycles always get to take the next boat.
A favorite ride in the St Louis area is Calhoun County during apple picking season. The way back is via the Golden Eagle Ferry across the Mississippi River. Traffic will be backed up for a couple of miles waiting for the opportunity to fit onto the ferry. I think that the ferry round trip takes 30 or 40 minutes so the wait can be hours. If you're on a bicycle, however, you just coast (it's downhill) past all of the stopped cars to the ferry landing. After they load as many cars onto the ferry as will fit, the ferry staff will signal us bicyclists to crowd between the cars wherever we'll fit. Bicycles always get to take the next boat.
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Originally Posted by Big Paulie
C'mon people, let's get real! When was the last time you blew past a 65 year old grandma on the bike path? And did you turn and give her "the look" when you did it???
03-14-07, 02:38 AM
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Believe it or not, I live in wine country here in Michigan. So one of my favorite things is to be out on my bike in the late summer riding past all the vineyards, smelling the ripening grapes. It's such a rich fragrance.
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"Riding along and successfully stealing a Clif bar out of somebody's jersey pocket."
Okay. I'm reading the list going "Yeah, yeah, okay", and then I hit that line and almost spewed my coffee! That was funny, thanks...
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Originally Posted by Big Paulie
This thread is so friggin' wussi-fied, it's gonna to make me sick!
C'mon people, let's get real! When was the last time you blew past a 65 year old grandma on the bike path? And did you turn and give her "the look" when you did it???
C'mon people, let's get real! When was the last time you blew past a 65 year old grandma on the bike path? And did you turn and give her "the look" when you did it???
Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
I give "the look" whenever the opportunity presents itself. If that only happens when I pass a 65 year old grandmother, so be it.
I am glad we are able to give you your jollies - sot of a sick jolly - but evidently a "jolly" for you none-the-less. We aim to please!
Do you get the same pleasure out of passing (and giving the "look") to 5 year old kids?
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
I give "the look" whenever the opportunity presents itself. If that only happens when I pass a 65 year old grandmother, so be it.
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03-14-07, 07:30 AM
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Watching the moon rise over the snow.
The satisfaction of making it through a heavily-ruttted icy moonscape.
The scent of flowers on a spring morning.
The sight of a summer storm approaching as I turn in to my neighborhood.
Stopping to watch a Redtailed Hawk perching in a tree overhead.
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The satisfaction of making it through a heavily-ruttted icy moonscape.
The scent of flowers on a spring morning.
The sight of a summer storm approaching as I turn in to my neighborhood.
Stopping to watch a Redtailed Hawk perching in a tree overhead.
Paul
(who watches cyclists go by, with envy, and contemplates starting a thread on crutches -- wood, steel, aluminum, or carbon)
03-14-07, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by MichiganMike
Believe it or not, I live in wine country here in Michigan. So one of my favorite things is to be out on my bike in the late summer riding past all the vineyards, smelling the ripening grapes. It's such a rich fragrance.
Other pleasures: Wet eucalyptus, freshly-mowed grass, a red-winged blackbird's song just as you draw even with it. The cool, slight dampness of riding out of the sun and into the shade near the creek. The exhilaration of the chase.
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Originally Posted by DnvrFox
As my wife is 67 year-old non-grandma, and we ride together:
I am glad we are able to give you your jollies - sot of a sick jolly - but evidently a "jolly" for you none-the-less. We aim to please!
Do you get the same pleasure out of passing (and giving the "look") to 5 year old kids?
I am glad we are able to give you your jollies - sot of a sick jolly - but evidently a "jolly" for you none-the-less. We aim to please!
Do you get the same pleasure out of passing (and giving the "look") to 5 year old kids?
I'm thinking that one of us might be a little too uptight.
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
If and when I find a 5 year old that I can beat - of course! At my ability level I have to take those pleasures when I can.
I'm thinking that one of us might be a little too uptight.
I'm thinking that one of us might be a little too uptight.
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Originally Posted by DnvrFox
I was thinking the same thing! Great minds, you know.
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Actually, one of my most favorite "small pleasures" in cycling is watching another cyclist ride past me when I'm working, or driving in my car. It takes me completely away from what I'm doing!
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Originally Posted by CrossChain
Some of your simplest pleasures derived from riding?
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I believe I hinted at a simple pleasure of cycling when I posted a question about beach coaster miles. I can repost the photo, if there is a desire. Just let me know!
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Riding- then theres the riding Oh and the riding. then the Pie- Maybe two pieces of pie if the ride is good enough- and then ride some more. Then I get home to "The grass needs cutting"- "I want a new Flower bed" or "You'r not coming in the house in those clothes- AND TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF"
I just love riding the bike.
I just love riding the bike.
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Hving your daughter, son, and son-in-law ask, right after a mountain bike ride, "When can we go again?"