Originally Posted by
Sculptor7
These posts make me realize how lucky I am to: (1) Be retired; (2) Get bike out of shed in 2 minutes; (3) Ride out directly from my home onto shaded roads that lead past the ocean with cooling breezes; (4) Come home and take a shower in 5 minutes; (6) plop down in a soft chair on our porch with a root beer float and doze off for 30 minutes.
That sounds absolutely wonderful. I ride from my house, but with the big hills that I can't get over yet, I don't ride too far - a mile one way and half a mile the other, then repeat. I usually try each hill once; them I'm about done in. I can fit a hybrid bike in the back seat of a Toyota Corolla though, and I can take it somewhere that the roads are flat, which I did once, but felt like a total weanie doing it. Maybe I shouldn't have felt like that. Maybe I will start taking the bike somewhere that I can ride, and when I get stronger and can do the hills here, move back toward home. I will have to do some google-maps/topo searching....
thanks for the ideas.