A previous post mentioned a photograph of a touring bicycle. I can remember such a picture as well. Something about it just looked right - the completely self-contained, functional nature of it really attracted me.

Like many of us, I spent much of my childhood on a bicycle. My buddy and I would load up our baskets with everything from baseball gloves to fishing rods - just in case! We spent long days wandering around the county, without a care in the world. The hardest part was turning around and heading home.