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From: Back in Lincoln Sq, Chicago...🙄
Bikes: '84 Miyata 610 ‘91 Cannondale ST600,'83 Trek 720 ‘84 Trek 520, 620, ‘91 Miyata 1000LT, '79 Trek 514, '78 Trek 706, '73 Raleigh Int. frame.
I know what you mean!
Hi Jeff,
I'm originally from Mass. and I hear you! I'm about to turn 41, got married a couple years ago, and we're talking about kids sooner rather than later.
Meanwhile I have a Kwacker Ninja 650r out back that's in need of some attention!
When I first got a motorcycle, an old Ninja 500, I loaded it up with camping gear and took a 4 day trip through Western MA, to NY, then North through VT and NH, then back to MA. I was half way through my trip, feeling like a really bad apple rebel, on the open road etc. when going up some switchbacks in the mountains I pass him.
A dude on a loaded touring bicycle spinning slowly up the same pass. That experience stuck with me for a long time, that guy was the REAL free spirit. No gasoline, no oil changes or insurance premiums, just a guy on bicycle using his legs to get where he was going.
That has stuck with me for YEARS.
Matthew