Nope, not my Sequoia, but I'm sure we've traded bikes/parts/greenbacks at some point along the road. Thanks for the kind words; it's a very personal thing to post on a forum, but this is a personal-type thread on a personal-type forum, so I suspect/hope people are ok with it.
On Sunday, January 26, 2014 4:59:32 AM UTC-8, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > Joe, I'm glad to hear that you are recovering and riding again. Didn't I > buy the Sequoia my wife has been riding from you? Maybe a decade or so > ago. She rode it around town until we bought the tandem... since then she > mostly wants to ride coupled. > > Like you and Leah I live at the bottom of a long hill and at the edge of > the Green Mountains. Pat is vertically challenged and never volunteers to > take on the mountains. We also live 2-4 miles down a dirt road which is > sometimes not very appealing to ride on. > > Pat and I love our bike racks. She especially likes the Saris hitch rack > which doesn't require lifting a bike overhead, but we will need to buy a > bar attachment to mount the Betty on it. The tandem goes on a Yakima roof > rack which has a swing out arm to ease mounting. I often drive out to > pavement or we drive down into the Champlain Valley to ride or over to some > good back roads on Grand Isle. When I was commuting, Pat would drive me to > the pavement during mud season. The Adirondacks, on the other side of Lake > Champlain offer more modest grades and great shoulders. > > My point is don't get discouraged, just get creative. > > I also remember fondly riding with my kids and am looking forward to > riding with my grandchildren, now 3 & 1. It turned out to be a great way > to keep communication channels open as they moved through adolescents. We > would ride along chatting. If the conversation took an adversarial tone we > would drift apart on the next hill, come back together and start over in a > new place. > > As for riding now,... maybe soon. We are having a warming trend, from > minus 22 to minus 5 in just 4 days! > > warmth, blessings, and rain for Ca. > Michael > > On Sunday, January 26, 2014 6:14:10 AM UTC-5, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> Last year I moved to the top of a really big hill. I didn't think much of >> it at the time, but I'm not the strong rider I was 10 years ago (a long >> story involving less riding as I sank deeper into alcoholism..I'm 10 months >> sober and slowly getting stronger again), and I was talking myself out of a >> lot of rides because I didn't want that climb home. >> >> I recently picked up a used electric bike to see how I liked it, and it >> has increased my time on the bike quite a bit. I still have my Bleriot and >> several other human-power-only bicycles which I still ride, but now I have >> the assisted-pedaling power when I want it. Maybe you could get something >> like that for the 20 mile store rides. >> >> Joe "sometimes a little help is helpful" Bernard >> Vallejo, CA. >> >> On Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:05:08 PM UTC-8, LeahFoy wrote: >> >>> We moved from beautiful Valencia, CA this summer to >>> less-but-still-beautiful NV. There were paseos that connected everything I >>> loved in Valencia, and I spent many happy miles on my Betty Foy frequenting >>> parks, favorite shopping districts and church. I even had another at-home >>> mom and her 2 kiddos to accompany me. My new home is up on a mountain, and >>> boasts no paseos. There is nothing but homes for miles and miles. It takes >>> 20min to get to the store by car. I'm able to bike to school with my boys, >>> but it is only 0.5 mile one way. Church is on school property, so I can >>> bike that same route 6 days per week, but it isn't enough. I miss bike >>> commuting because I love doing useful things on my bike - I don't like to >>> cruise with no place or plan in mind. I miss having another mom on my >>> adventures. I'm the only mother who bikes with her kids to school. There >>> are almost 1,000 students at school and there is one dad (mountain bike >>> with disc brakes) I see bike with his son most days. One mom I see on her >>> cruiser bike once every blue moon. It's lonely. And I don't think we'll be >>> moving again for several years. I have a beautiful Betty Foy that >>> practically begs to be ridden and I just don't get her out enough. I'm >>> grateful for the school commute, I just gotta figure out where else I can >>> go... I would guess some of you guys had times in your life where you had >>> to live in a less-than-bikey community. How did you deal? >>> >>> Thanks, Leah >> >> -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
