The BICYCLE Stuff

So... HERE's where the BICYCLE stuff will be...

Like most folks, I first straddled a bike as a child.  It was a shiny red Christmas bicycle with training wheels.  My life changed on the day the training wheels came off.  It changed again on the first day I rode up the street until my house was out of sight, enroute to a destination!  Bicycle was a primary form of transportation, and my only "independent" transportation, for the next ten years or so.

Then, like most folks, I got a drivers license and started thinking of my bike as a toy.  CAR was the way to get around.  But after about ten years of that, and experiencing the down-side of car transportation (expense, traffic, parking, etc.), the bike started looking attractive again.  And, in 1986 I transitioned back to bicycle as my primary means of transportation.  I've never looked back.

More than thirty years have come and gone... I've ridden 350-odd days, and 6000-odd miles, each of those years.  I ride to work.  I run errands on the bike.  I ride for exercise and pleasure.  I LOVE IT!