Dio Rallen & enormouslock~
Thank you for sharing your words. Since picking up a bike almost exactly a year ago, after not having rode for 20 years, I have found myself spiritually again. It's refreshing to hear from others who find riding a gateway to the soul. I always knew there was an adventurer inside, I just had to find it, and the people I have met are all a part of it. I have been encouraged more by strangers than my own family, which is surprising to me, but I'll take it as it comes and from whomever it comes from. One who rides a top notch racer or a piece of cr@p, barely held together junker bike can experience who they truly are on a bike. I was locked away in my home for 20 years and it feels so great to be alive again.