Comments on Blog of Ages: Want buns of steel?

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2010-02-01T17:08:04.579-06:00

(My cat is stretched out in front of my keyboard) Remembering Bikes\Couple of my buddies and I would ride from our neighborhood in to downtown Muskogee to the movies. About three miles. No one ever bothered our bikes.
One trip we were racing to go over the little hill that led into town...my chain came off and i bounced across two blocks of front lawns, across a street and thought I would die
Then we managed a beautiful Schwinn black bike with a headlight and longhorn handles. KMust have ridden that 10,000 miles. Ah bikes. (and Trains) B.

Sounds like fun, George, but not until the snowpac...

2010-02-01T11:10:33.615-06:00

Sounds like fun, George, but not until the snowpack clears. Even at 10 mph, bicycling lowers the wind chill substantially. Would definitely thin the herd, however.

I love to ride my bicycle, too, George, but I'm am...

2010-02-01T10:12:32.395-06:00

I love to ride my bicycle, too, George, but I'm among the thinned herd when it comes to cold weather, which compared to Minneapolis Austin's a wimp, too. I do well to force myself out, as I did this morning, when it's 37 degrees to jog with my dog.

As for the Tour de France, when the organizers first included mountain stages, the riders who made it to the top yelled, "You murderers!"