Oh, this'll be a fun one! I was 'made' a bikey by a combination of things. It was mostly my time as an undergrad at UC Davis in a town that appreciated and supported bicycles as a major mode of transportation that showed it was possible to live a car free life.
The other was dating a girl on the triathlon team and I wanted to spend more time with her, so I used my Dad's 1986 Trek 520 (that was my commuter) to go on rides with her. That was when the (metaphorical) bug bit when doing fun, but fast-ish rides to the nearby brewery on scenic country roads with good people. Collin, back in Sacramento On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 1:48:18 PM UTC-7 Joe Bernard wrote: > Will has an interesting post in the the recent Riv Newsletter about how he > and some friends first noticed bikes and got into them. After your initial > foray as a kid with a bike, what was the thing that made you notice them > later and turn you into an adult-person-cyclist? > > Mine is similar to Will's as a young man in Los Angeles, except it was the > flashy riders in "tight clothes" I picked up on. I vividly recall being > stopped on Pacific Coast Highway somewhere south of Long Beach (probably on > a motorcycle) and watching all the roadies go by, this would be early '80s. > This one guy went by on a green (actually celeste blue, but I didn't know > that at the time) Bianchi with matching bar tape and riding gear. That was > the moment I - a car and motorcycle nut - realized bicycles were a thing, > too. A very cool thing, and you got a workout in the process! > > I was hooked, what hooked you? > > Joe Bernard > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d749e9ef-c971-4c95-9a02-ee4fc3ebba15n%40googlegroups.com.
