Tyler, I love it. This is the greatest reply, ever. If you two dig up more of these photographic gems, please show them to us here. I love that he actually passed a love of cycling to you - I think we all wish we we knew how to do that. My boys will ride, but they don’t get the joy I get from it. They do it to get around. And I am not sure they ever look down at their Clems and think they are beautiful bikes. They just ride. On Mar 9, 2023, at 11:37 AM, Tyler Dewey <tylerjde...@gmail.com> wrote:
Leah,
Yes, that is me in those photos! Pops and I have been riding together pretty much since I was born. I celebrated my 1st birthday on a bike tour and never really stopped. I don't know how many miles we logged together, but I imagine it would qualify for an around the world patch. Pops introduced me to the Rivendell Reader when I was in high school, and now I ride the black and cream canti-Hillborne he posted.
-Tyler Durham, NC
On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 2:43:34 PM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote:
Am I understanding that this is you and your son, Jock? You could be brothers. What great photos and a great story. Though I will say that first photo of you and the little guy has me thinking he might have been safer stuffed in a Backabike bag of his own, but it was the 80s!
L
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146626768@N06/49733185021/in/album-72157717416628946/Jock Dewey On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 6:23:32 AM UTC-8 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote:
I was looking through an old photo album of my bikes. My boys were tiny, my dog was young, and my Betty Foy was sparkly and new. But you look at things through different eyes over the years, and today, I came across a couple of regrettable old photos that made me want to cry and then laugh, simultaneously. It was 2013. I was obviously the most excited person in my family about biking. I had just gotten that Betty Foy and thus I could do just about anything. I invented all sorts of adventures for us - fun things but we had to get there by bike. I dragged my two tiny boys along, regardless of their sub-standard bikes. Even the dog was not spared. Surely this must be List-appropriate? There will be lots of photos of a Betty Foy, and that very bike was the source of all the “adventures” I inflicted on my tiny family members.
(I’m going to post the photos, with commentary in the following entry. This, because I have never figured out how to get photos posted in the body of this message - I only can do it from email after the first post arrives there. If anyone has a hot tip about that, I’m all ears.)
Who else has tortured their family with their own love of bicycles? Who else has told themselves, “Well, it’s good for them.” Who else was a slow learner but eventually got their act together and bought better equipment for a better experience for the tortured family members?
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