[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Hi, Steve![/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]I was wondering if you'd gotten your dream bike. You'll have to post us a picture! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]After all my hand-wringing when I bought my bike last Fall, I have now given it to my daughter and am in the market again, lol. Hers was stolen from the parking lot where she worked, out of the middle of about 40 bikes, when no others were taken. We think it was singled out because it's pink and pretty, and somebody will use it as a Mother's Day gift this weekend. She had it cable-chained, but they used bolt cutters and off they went with it. Being single, she has a hard time coming up with enough for a new bike, especially when she's moving this month and paying all the first-and-last deposits, etc. So I gifted her with my Raleigh, and am training on my old cruiser while I shop. If I can't find one I like in time for the tour, I'll borrow mine back from her to use just for that, and then give it back to her. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Early-morning rides and dusk rides are my favorite times to ride, too. It's so cool and quiet and peaceful. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]I don't know if I'm courageous to go ahead and go on my tour, or stupid, lol, but I'm going. I really think that, barring accidents or injuries, I can do most of the days except maybe the 54-mile one. That's about twice as far as I've gone... though if I do half of it, rest for an hour or so, and then go again, I might be able to do it. Depends totally on how hot/cool it is and if I can remember to keep hydrated and fueled so I don't bonk. But my sister is taking the tour with me, and our hope is that we'll be having so much fun that the miles just speed by before we realize it. At any rate, we're trying, and I think you're absolutely right that it will give me a feeling of accomplishment to have done it. And afterward, it will be very nice to get back to just riding daily for the fun of it, instead of training so hard. [/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Hope you're enjoying the nice weather. We seem to have gone from months of rain to 90 degrees in one week. Unreal. Somebody just kidnapped Spring and never brought it back, lol.[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR= #0000ff][SIZE= 12px]Have a good one.[/COLOR][/SIZE]