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 Wil
For me it was seeing road cyclists out training on Whitney Ave. in Hamden
and New Haven, Ct. Most or all were on the Yale cycling team, and they
would wave to me when I was riding my Humber Clipper Grand Prix that I got
in 1964. Steve
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 4:48 PM Joe Bernard wrote:
> Will has
After I had to stop coaching Soccer after my fifth knee surgery. I started
with a Colnago C40 road bike, it was fast and light. I then had a Heart
Attack out of nowhere...and used cycling as a means to recover and started
to enjoy my old steel bike. I found a Rivendell Rambo and fitted with Jack
Being newly unemployed and poor, newly single and heartbroken during the
great recession. Set up a free cycled, cheap aluminum rear rack on my Surly
Cross Check, bungee corded a car camping sleeping bag, pad, and tent to it,
and rode up to a spot I knew in Tilden where I figured nobody would bot
I was an avid cyclist as a small child -- recall an early family photo of
myself and friend, age about 8, posing proudly with our cruisers --
interesting: his was a very ancient 28" wheel, but American wheels,
cruiser; mine a 24" wheel JC Higgins -- but started self-consciously
identifying with bic
I've been riding a bike since I was able to straddle our no-name shared
spray painted green kids bike, with a gold striped banana seat. I still
remember taking off down the driveway with training wheels yip !
It was like when a bird takes it's first flight . there's no going back
n
I was 18 and was a bit chubby. I decided I needed to find some exercise to keep
me fit and knew I needed to settle on something I enjoyed so that I’d keep at
it. I hated jogging but loved riding and rode all over town up until I got my
license on my 16th birthday. So bicycles it was.
The first
Love this thread.
I always loved bikes, I remember pedaling my own hand-me-down banana seat bike
shirtless around the neighborhood at age 6 or so.
Age 12 I started babysitting for a family that had a used FRENCH ROAD RACING
BIKE sitting on their porch—that no one rode! I’d discovered that bike
For me my initial foray into becoming a "Bike Person" was building up a
fixed gear conversion at a local bike co-op and becoming involved in
fixed-gear culture which led me to become more informed that there was such
a thing as bike culture and that there were dozens of facets to it. The
facets of
