My bike is a time machine...
Originally Posted by
Digital Gee
...It can take me to a place without time, when it's just me and the bike out there, and I can really hear the sounds of the birds and the bugs, the wind through the rushes in the wetlands and the sound my tires make riding down the pavement. When it's like this, I don't know - and I don't care - what time it is. Feels like I could go on forever in that space between the past and the future.
Usually I ride familiar roads with a particular destination and schedule. When I do an organized ride, where someone else plans the route, and my schedule is just to finish, it’s enjoyable to become lost to time (of day)
and space.
Originally Posted by
Digital Gee
...It gives me time - time to think, to puzzle something out, to ponder about the meaning of things....
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
… mostly my thoughts on the road are about work, family and more immediate issues; sometimes even composing posts to BikeForums in my head. On occasions I might ponder and give thanks for the Existence of Life and the World…