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Old 06-18-12 | 02:42 PM
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chvid
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Hello, my name is Chris and I am a cheater. I prefer riding 30 mph on my hybrid e-trike tadpole electric lawnchair pedalling like crazy with the bike stereo blasting some cool Zeppelin or Tull and getting tons of exercise rather than 15mph on my little folder. It's because I am getting old and my family commitments are such that I just don't have enough time to ride a regular bicycle anymore, and I like rock music from the sixties which is kinda obsolete these days. Things like moving my elderly mother into the nursing home next week, and my career, and shopping, and hauling groceries thirty miles from Costco and those sixty milers on the weekend to pick up some nice strawberries. I've pretty well ditched the cage unlike most people who don't cheat, but I can't say that that sucks like they can, waiting in traffic to get to their road bike. Oh well. I can't be as immaculate on my carbon road bike these days as I used to be, and occasionally get a little tired when I cheat, but that's ok because I burned a thousand calories going up that damned 18% grade on Mount Finlayson Road with the cargo trailer full of toilet paper and paper towels. Of course I wouldn't enjoy the Zeppelin without visiting my neighbour for her medical marijauna which kinda helps with the messed up shoulder, which kinda explains the recumbent, other than the extreme fun of e-assist. It never felt so good to be a cheater! :-)

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