Hmmm…. Riding 40 years and after 34 years of hard core riding …. At 14 doing my first double century - just a challenge - not hard core riding yet. ….. with the number of chains, cassettes, tires, tubes, BB, Chain rings, rims getting too thin from dirt and grime wear that I have gone through…Working a bike shop when I was younger… I never really counted tires, chains….etc..the five current bikes and the 16 before …not having a computer for the first 20 years…not tracking trainer miles…. having the Flight deck flip 10,000 miles three times in five years….. over a 100,000 miles easy ….could be closer to 150,000 don’t know .... what counts is riding…. All I know is I feel better and more in control on a bike than in a car…..It is over 60 degree in MN on November 11, 2005 and I have 53.7 miles in today …..now back to work…..dang!


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