LAJ

Also a good job.

Heathpack 

Well its not like I'm paralyzed by fear. I do ride into Mountain Lion Canyon all the time.

PS Its not really called Mountain Lion Canyon. I made that part up.

Ramona_W

No. Not yet. But I have a feeling you'll get there eventually and so will I. There's a point every winter for about the last ten years where my mother says "Move to Arizona. Just do it. Make everyone happier and just go."

I am looking forward to riding our bikes over to the park for short people to watch the lighting of the big Christmas tree followed by hot chocolate at the Hilton Hotel. And LoP has never been on one of the tours of the old fort that they conduct by the light of old-fashioned lanterns. So there will be some bright spots.

RPK79

Maybe this will be the year that I take up cross country? Nope.

Heathpack 

You could take a cycling vacation to So Cal. I'll lend you my camping stuff.

RPK79

No vacations will be happening in the near future. My wife has her sights set on Niagara Falls for our next venture. Not sure how I feel about that one...

LAJ

It's hard to be as legendary as @Velo Vol if you actually admit to making stuff up, @Heathpack.

Mountain Lion Canyon has a nice ring to it, and I was in total belief.

RPK79

Heathpack 

There is a canyon in which I ride all the time. In said canyon, a cycling friend saw a mountain lion crossing the road one morning. All of that is true. Its just the name of the canyon that I made up, for the purposes of internet anonymity.

I am indeed legendary. Or at least as legendary as @Velo Vol

Velo Vol 

@3alarmer gets it. Though I had in mind the days when it barely cracks 40F rather than ice storms.

Pretty good. Keep working on it and you'll have it when it really really gets cold.

Correct. Come wallow in the VV sackcloth and ashes. It's great fun.

LAJ

Most excellent.

RPK79

Velo Vol 

Yesterday I outraced five pumas in Catamount Hollar.

#NotReally

3alarmer

...I saw (glimpsed briefly in broad daylight) an eastern mountain lion running across the Skyline Drive once, up in Shenandoah National Park. #truestory

RPK79

When we were in the badlands we saw a cat of some sort, but it ran away up a rock formation so quickly we did not get a good look at it or a picture.

BillyD

@HP That's pretty close to why I've always loved to ride, too. When I first started to ride I lived in the city, and what became narcotic to me was the freedom I felt being on a bike. I didn't need public transportation or a car to go wherever I wanted to go, day or night, including riding the wrong way up one-way streets and riding through red lights. The bicycle was liberating, the freedom euphoric.



Somehow, riding up here in the boondocks just doesn't do it for me in the same way.

ls01

Velo vol and understandingnin the same sentence...Isnt that one of the signs? The end is near!

ls01

Ferocious.

ls01

I knew you were lying at "outraced".

BillyD

You're right, we here in the northeast do not appreciate ice and sleet storms.


Fixed for statistical probability.

RPK79

To be fair we don't create cluster ****s in ice and sleet storms since we know enough to just walk to the corner bar instead of trying to drive around in it.

Hermes

nondes 

Cycling around Niagara wine country on the Canadian side is enjoyable, though not that strenuous. It's very rural and quite scenic. You will need a way to carry the bottles you collect (or do the rounds in your car afterwards!). There's a good theatre festival (the Shaw) at an overly prettified town called Niagara-on-the Lake. The Niagara Peninsula has a long limestone escarpment which gives you some moderate hills (OK- miniscule by Heathpack's standards).

Bicycling Map - Niagara Region, Ontario

RollCNY

I ride to make the voices in my head stop. It is one of the few things I do where my mind goes quiet, and I stop thinking. That's why your riddle didn't make any sense. A bike is a horrible place to get thinking done, for me.

rjones28 

I waited until after lunch. It was in the 60s