So I dropped into the garage to make a service appointment for my Van (which is no where near as reliable as my Trek), and the mechanic/owner mentions that he saw me on my bike WAAAAY over by the Burger Stand. The location is maybe all of three miles from my house and I live 6/10ths of mile from his shop. And he honestly thought I was a long way from our neighborhood on a bike. He couldn't imagine going that far on a bike (or I look older and fatter than I thought and he was being kind). I mentioned that I had been riding home from work when he saw me and the conversation drifted over to my Van.

I've always held Bob (the mechanic/owner) in very high regard. In my mind anyone who can and does keep up with all the new automotive technologies and/or be a successful business person has to be not only talented and inteligent but also highly motivated and ambitious. Not necessarily talents I can personally relate to, but I do highly respect those who have them. But poor Bob, as talented and intelligent as he is, has been so busy learning and managing his sucessful business and raising his family that he has missed out on the joys of cycling. He has been so automotively focused that the flexibility, dependability and unlimited freedom of bicycling has escaped his world.

I guess I'm gonna have to work on that......