Originally Posted by mcbtc

couldn't disagree more-- you can make anything do (and it doesn't take much to get from an apartment to a beach bar with a coconut full of margarita or backpacking from the frat house to biology 101), but... A real love of bikes and cycling comes from an appreciation and fascination with what seems to me to be an ingenious and continually evolving (even if only incrementally) way to translate the relatively small amount of horsepower a human is capable of generating into mph and miles/day on a modern road bike or jeeping it in the outback or off-road trail that may go back hundreds of years-- e.g., to the time of father serra on a day's hike between missions.