jeez - is there anybody on this forum who is riding for a *different* reason? What a great thread - it's interesting to know how many of us are engaging in bicycle therapy.

It's also why I'm a private evangelist for riding. So many people I see, and I think - his/her life would be so much better if he/she took up riding. Generally I realize that people have to find it for themselves, so I keep my mouth shut. I know of one in particular who ended his life. I knew him for many years and remember well that he had enjoyed endurance sports (but not riding) when he was younger. I wonder (uselessly) if he would have coped differently if.........

And too, I think we all wonder whether Robin Williams just needed to get back on his bike. I read that part of his despondence was that a Parkinson's diagnosis had him thinking he couldn't keep riding.