Introductions - Pedaling (CAR!) in Columbus

I have only recently re-entered the world of cycling. About a year ago, I stumbled into a local bike shop driven partially by nostalgia of former childhood happiness on my old huffy mountain bike and partially by a desperate need to lose weight. I ended up leaving with a Giant Cypress SL.

I didn't start seriously riding (or dieting) until March of this year, and taken I have! Up until July, I rode frequently and as fanatically as my chronically sore legs would allow me. In July, I was riding on a community bike path and was struck by a soccer-mom while I was traveling through a pedestrian crossing. I survived (with no broken bones!), but Hermes (my bike) did not. I currently have two bikes, another Giant (an FCR 1) and a Specialized Rockhopper Comp, one for commuting (eventually) and one for off-road mayhem.

I am getting ready to graduate college (OSU) and will inevitably end up in graduate school somewhere else, next time hopefully in a more bike-friendly city. I am an avid-reader, amateur cook, and hopefully a soon to be amateur bicycle mechanic.

I stumbled upon this forum while looking for advice on how to remove cassettes, and have been hopelessly addicted ever since.

Welcome!

What's your major? Where are you looking at grad school?

Joe

My major is in English, and most of my experience has been in rhetoric and composition, which translates to teaching people how to write. English isn't what I plan on getting my terminal degree in. Eventually, I plan on getting an Masters of Library Science, so that I can work in college library, but that requires an additional masters degree in another field, either to prove that you are dedicated to the concept of learning or so that you are so in debt that the university system owns you for all eternity. Either way that translates to another four years of school.

As soon as my fiancé finishes her graduate program, I will likely continue doing time at either the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, UMASS at Amherst, NYU, or perhaps McGill in Quebec. All offer excellent graduate programs and (more importantly) are situated in (to varying degrees) bicycle-friendly towns.

Thanks for taking an interest.

One of those that can pass the courses I had so much trouble with. I'm an EE and can barely find the library and certainly not an English class.

Good Luck
Joe