Reading another thread gave me the idea for this topic.

Everyone post on the simple fun of riding for you.

For me, I started riding again because of the one-two punch of elevated cholesterol and elevated gasoline prices. So I started doing all the local errands that I used to do by car with my old bicycle. Quickly, the motivation for bicycling changed to bicycling itself.

Now I ride simply for the fun of riding. I try to expand my territory to see new scenery (and carry along my other simple joy, a point-n-shoot camera for my inner shutterbug) and talk to people in a non-textual manner. There is the joy of just slowly pedaling along and gawking at the trees and flowers while listening to the rustling of the breeze and the chirping of the birds, then there's the joy of getting into the zone and zooming along in a sustainable pedal cadence, where your focus narrows to keeping the beat and the road ahead of you.

That's it for me. How about you? (Yes, YOU! Right there reading this text! I'm typing at you! )