Difficulty trying to fit big rides into my life validates my well being. It's all that other stuff that keeps me well rounded so my rides have become shorter and combined with other responsibilities or chores.
Shorter rides can be much more fulfilling too. Showing cycling to someone else renews the things that make it so dear to all of us "committed" riders. We have a 20-something friend we met by chance at a friend's son's wedding in VA who was new to the Pittsburgh. Recently relocated and taking a new direction in her life in healthcare, drawn here sight unseen by the medical and education infrastructure. My wife have taken her under wing. She handling financial, social and vocational mentoring, including getting rid of her car and maximizing public transportation. I've been guiding her around town and showing her the necessaries by bike. Our tandem is the ideal mode by which to get outside my head after riding the same way for a long time. It let the new stoker do a lot of looking around and seeing how to manage traffic and other things apprehensive to new riders. I forgot how infective riding is and how much joy can come from the freedom to move yourself for fun and transportation. My interest in a supple framed 650b project has smoldered for a few years. I've read about each bike folks on the list get rolling and write about in posts. This time I opted to spend my bike fund to get our friend a bike. After some frustrating weeks scouring the web and other sources for something in the right size, one of my shop contacts alerted me to closeouts in odd sizes by one of his brands, so after some test riding of others, tried one in her size that he ordered for another customer. It was gold. I do love my orange Rambouillet, and I'll keep riding it primarily for years in trade for seeing someone else embrace and engage cycling. Sunday I took our friend on her new bike on a ride from her house (actually lives with one of the baristas from the coffee shop around the corner from our house) to see the city via bike routes, dedicated trails, lanes and paths. I dropped her off and headed home with nearly 20 pounds of shopping from the Strip District in my courier bag (bottle of Maggie's Farm La Revuelta on the bottom) with 35 miles on the odometer and having spent the time showing someone else how easily you can integrate biking, shopping, and fun. Much more mentally rewarding than a long solo ride of the same duration. Very enjoyable to reinforce and support our friend's educational and vocational decisions, buttressing those efforts and determination by facilitating her cycling. It's been surprisingly insightful. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 5:25:05 PM UTC-4, Richard Rios wrote: > > couldn't agree more. Between work, life, family, most my rides click in at > an hour or two. Still I love um. like little meditation breaks from it all. > Restorative on a Riv...Restoritariv perhaps. just ramblin as usual. > > Best, > Richard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
