It dawned on me the other day… I’ve been riding bikes for a very long time. From big wheels to training wheels to my first dirt bike to my first ten-speed, steel, aluminum, and carbon, department store mountain bikes to fancy bike store road bikes, tandems, hybrids, fixed-gear, single-speed, 10, 12, and more speeds than I can know what to do with, when you tally it up, we are closing in on nearly 40 years of riding bicycles.
photo: me crossing the finish line after the Tour de Cure 100 mile bike ride.
Oy. That’s a long ass time and goodness knows how many miles (no Strava apps in the 70s, I’m afraid).