There and back again. On my Madsen. 33 miles. 75 pound bike. 40 Pounds of kid in the back on the way home. Holy hills. And the worst 5mph headwind ever.
The 16+ mile ride in only took 80 minutes, a 20 or 25 minute premium over my road bikes.
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley