I had a thought. Considering the current situation it could be fun to get ideas
on how you ride solo. I want specifics. Where, how far, what bike, how you make
it special? Do you bring coffee, bourbon, a pipe, food? Do you pedal hard or
take it easy? Maybe read at a favorite spot, meditate, what
Greetings,
I ride solo almost everyday. I never get bored and If I didn’t have a family I
could see myself creeping into Freddy Hoffman territory. Almost 95% of my
rides are out and backs from my Seattle home and none of them are ever exactly
the same path. I have several basic ride “routes” an
I have been a year-'round daily bike commuter for about 35 years. My daily
commute from Brooklyn to the middle of Manhattan is about a 9-mile ride, each
way. I am riding a 58cm mid-aughts Ramboulliet, my setup informed by the
aesthetic influence of the 1970's Gitanes, Motobecanes, Peugeots of my
I make up errands: returning books to the library, running to the grocery
store. Lately I’ve been finding the “little free libraries” and circulating
books through them.
I used to never use headphones, but now I almost always do. Music or
podcasts. I have a big network or little used MUPs around m
Normally, what you describe makes up my routine solo riding-- local errands
of less than two miles: library, supermarket, drug store, hardware store,
PO, etc, often on my way home from work. Amazing how many you can hit in
one go when you live in a city. Now with this crisis, I'm restricting the
