ride my bike more

It’ll be a while before I can do this.
My dad brought my bike home a couple days ago.
It would be too cold & icy to ride because it’s winter is coming!
I’ll have to wait until the summer.
Even then, I won’t be able to ride that much.
I am going on a month long trip to Australia.
Eventually, I’ll do this!!

THINGS I CAN NOW DO ON BIKE (that I couldn’t before so much):
1) go to fruitstand on corner of Lville Hwy (and actually buy fruit)
2) go to MARTA bus (on Lville Hwy or W Ponce)
3) go to cafe on Hugh Howell on a sunday morning (IE no traffic)

IMMEDIATE GOALS:
1) go to library/post office/bank/ downtown Tucker
2) go to cafe Hugh Howell at ANY time (rush hour, etc)
3) go to nature preserve on Ponce/Clarkston

NEXT GOALS:
1) go to MARTA thru back roads/neighborhoods
2) go to beginning of Stone Mt trail at any hour
3) go down Chamblee Tucker area (The Loop Grill, etc)

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT:
1) take Stone Mt trail all the way to Decatur/Oakhurst
2) take La Vista rd into town (Atl)
3) utilize ‘cliff’ system, thus being able to go ANYWHERE in metro Atlanta w/o paying MARTA (if this is possible.. I think it is)

when I’ve completed all this i will count this goal as done and I’ll be AWESOME

^{I reserve the right to wait till Spring if it becomes too schniggly in the winter months}

I am not a fan of cars. I don’t enjoy driving. I don’t appreciate a nice car or the expense that goes into maintaining it. I would love to bike my way to and from work and school everyday. I would love to do away with car ownership all together. I have a 5 year old so that complicates things quite a bit, but I am planning for the future and trying to implement bike riding into my current schedule as much as I can.

So, this isn’t going too well.
I am at college now & didn’t bring my bike.
Lo & behold, I won a bike.
Pretty awesome.
I ride it to class sometimes.
I went on one bike ride with a friend.
That’s about as far as my bike riding goes.
Soon, it will be too icy to ride.
& besides, the lock is frozen, so I couldn’t ride it even if I wanted to.

I hope things are going well for you all!

Poor thing got caught out in the rain. When I went to rescue it, it was all cold and wet.

Fingers crossed that it wont rust.

ANOTHER small ride! can I manage a modest ride around the block every day until I become braver and stronger? that’d be something all right

yay….

though now, I must confront my inherent shapelessness (as in, damn, am I out of shape!)

before was easy to blame on that Dirty Old Cigarette, but chugging up that hill like it was K2 really got to me.

I guess I need to feel pleased I got out there at all – got to work on that – the being pleased, that is. The being able to suspend my disbelief re. it being “oh so great of you to be out there riding when you haven’t touched the thing in over 2 years” as opposed to seeing it as PATHETIC, in that ‘look at Lance Armstrong, then look at your sorry self’ way… ah well.

the other thing that strikes me is how inherently BRAVE you must be to ride a bike in this town – or anywhere, i guess

you really have to claim your corner of the road, even in those suburban roads where nobody saw fit to install as much as a sidewalk for a poor beleaguered lapsed cyclist

I actually feel sort of bad for the cars swooping by me, while at the same time I’m kind of annoyed, too. I’m tempted to go out there on the bike back out on Cooledge Rd at 5:15pm with a sandwich board reading “don’t like me blocking your road? Contact your local city council person about installing bike paths around here”

but it’d probably be easier in the end just to go through the seldom-traveled residential neighborhoods

plus I think that’d be hard to coordinate – balancing a sandwich board & all

I want to ride my bike more..yes,i would love to do this as i am sick of driving cars..now just want to have fun riding my bike as i’ve purchased a brand new bmw bike

Today when I walked out the trash I realized if one of my goals is to do a triathalon then I will have to ride my bike again. I set this goal last year and never worked on it so I guess nows the time. I just brought it out and all I have to do is add some air in the tires and wash it off a bit. At least getting it out is a start.

if i don’t start riding this thing soon I’m gonna SELL IT – even if only at 1/4 of what I (stupidly) spent on it