Jaerery, you are THE MAN for helping get your friend on the ride train. way to go.

It's funny the mixed results attempts at encouraging cycling among friends, coworkers and aquaintences goes....

I have a friend, he's one of the 'wistful' bike commuters, he lives within a 30 minute comfortable ride to work ,but suceeds in doing it rarely even though he says he wants to and should, to keep in better shape.

So, he's always biatching and moaning about how he's not as fit anymore, and how a little ski tour always kicks his arse, so I've tried to rejuvenate his desire to ride. I even leant him my Trek 520 for over a month last fall (when he asked if he could!) so he could use it for his commute while he 'rehabbed' his ancient touring bike he rode across the country 2 decades ago. His bike is still on his basement workstand six months later.

And yet he continually complains about how he's not very fit anymore and how skiing whoops him now. We're going for a little backcountry tour this morning, I'm going to rub his nose in it a little.

He's the type of guy that makes 100k a year, will waste hundreds of dollars trying to fix his bike that's pretty much ready to be retired, instead of spending a little money and treat himself right with a stellar new bike. He bought a work stand, new gruppo parts, a whole bunch of bike tools, etc, but still has an unworkable bike.

Some people are not as truly enthusiastic about the ride, good work once again ,Jarery.