Ride my bicycle more often

i love riding a bicycle. i want to ride more often, longer routes, and with people. i want to increase bicycle use and reduce car/motorcycle use.

we’ve started doing this by taking trips to eateries and shops on the weekends we’re free as well as going to parties by bike. i’m also trying to commute by bike to work if i’m ready early enough in the morning, but lately i haven’t been very good at that.

I hope to achieve this goal soon. I just took my bike in to the shop for an overhaul. This bike has been driven me crazy since the day I got it. I bought it with a boy that seemed to be nothing but trouble. I should have known better. Everything he touched, he broke. My heart was no exception.

Started Bike Hashing and own a few bikes now. I even own an industrial tricycle haha…

exercise and reducing air pollution

I commute with my bike sometimes, but I want to commute with my bike every day it’s practical. I would also like to use my bike for errands.

I am officially a trail rider! I have a small group of co-workers and we go out almost every weekend to ride the local trails. Its great exercise, the best way to be immersed in nature without slowing down and being bitten by bugs or snakes! The view is amazing and the weather is great. I love the physical exertion and the sense of accomplishment and overcoming my inertia. Can’t beat it! :)

anyone want to donate an old cruiser or road bike?

It’s been a whole season, Spring to Fall, without the car and I have decided that I have achieved my goal of “Riding my bicycle more often”!

I ride back and forth to Northampton at least once a week and if I want to go anywhere during the day, it’s on the bicycle. I’ve definitely lost some weight, I refuse to use a scale but I have some older pairs of jeans that I can finally bring back into circulation.

My plan is to continue riding the bike until snow falls, when that finally happens I’m going to purchase an elliptical machine for the basement. I have to do something to exercise during the winter. ;)

Yesterday Andy, Joe, and myself met at my house at 6:00 am for an early morning ride. We made a decent loop up to Florence, then down Route 66 to Loudville, then down Loudville Road back towards the center of town.

We road for about an hour and for a while I was telling myself that Andy was holding us back. His knees bother him after a while and he likes to keep a slower pace. Joe, on the other hand, loves to crank the whole way. When we made it out to Loudville Road, I decided that I was going to really push myself. I pedaled furiously the length of the road and when I made it to the traffic light at the end, I stopped to see where Andy and Joe were. Andy was pretty far back, I couldn’t see him around the bend, but Joe was right there next to me. I was huffing and puffing and Joe hadn’t even broken a sweat!

Maybe that should be one of my new goals: outride Joe! :P

I rode down to the coffee shop today to pick up some coffee and to invite Heather to the cookout I’m having on Sunday. It’s probably only a couple miles each way, but at least I managed to get a ride in today.