Bike Bicycle
Why do you ride a bicycle? What kind of bike do you have? How far do you ride every day/week?
Also how long have you been riding your bicycle for?
Why do I ride? Probably the best answer to that is that I’ve never completely lost that inner childhood sense of wonder and adventure that comes with exploring the world under my own power. I walk, run, hike, ski, canoe, kayak, swim, skate, and bike. Of course, to see the most in a given time period, there’s nothing like a bike!
I’ve been riding a bike of some sort for nearly 40 years.
- The first one was a brand new 1969 single-speed green Raleigh, that I took the fenders from the same day as I lost the training wheels.
- In 1977, I obtained a five-speed Raleigh touring bike … a deep rust brown color, which made it difficult to know when things were really rusting out.
- In 1982, I got my first real ‘road’ bike, a 14-speed steel tube Bianchi Imola with Campagnolo drivetrain and a real Italian leather racing saddle. The color was royal purple – it made me feel like the king of the road!
- In 1990 (after I’d wrecked my second Bianchi), I got my first true mountain bike … I say “true” because that first single speed got to see a lot of the world, and it wasn’t all paved roads!. The bike was a Haro Vector … no suspension, 24 speeds, cro-moly frame and forks, Shimano drivetrain.
- In 2004, I moved to my current road bike, the Felt 55 compact design. Aluminum tubes with carbon seatpost, front forks, and chainstays. Shimano DuraAce drivetrain, with FSA carbon compact crankset.
- Finally, in 2006, the Haro packed it in … and I ended up with a Gary Fisher Tassajara Disc.
I still have the Haro, by the way … I’m rebuilding the freewheel and cassette by hand, since the parts are no longer available anywhere.
These days, I ride the road bike (Felt) 36-40 miles a day (18-20 each way to work), with longer rides of 62-100 miles on at least one day most weekends. Add to that my mountain biking (on the Gary Fisher): evening trail rides of 8-10 miles most weekdays and tours by the lake on the other day of the weekend, and I probably add another 60-80 miles a week to the road bike totals.
And I’m just an amateur rider!
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