Speaking of short rides. We have an annual campout with some old friends that visit every August from Wisconsin. Every year we'd go for a weekend of car-camping at Samuel P Taylor park. One year, Samuel P Taylor park had some problem with their plumbing and there was going to be no running water. We like the running water and so we re-located our campout to a backyard in Berkeley. That 'campout' went so well that now we do it every year at the same Berkeley backyard.
This year, my son (15) and I decided that not only would we be camping out in the backyard, but we would tandem cycletour to that Berkeley back yard. We loaded up our Ibis Touche with our tent, sleeping bags, stove, change of clothes, and toiletries and rode from the El Cerrito Hills down to North Berkeley. Down the hill was probably about a 20 minute ride, and back up the hill the next day might have been close to an hour. It was a short and altogether pointless ride, but it was fun, and I imagine it will be a fond memory of an outing spent with my young son. A willing and athletic 15 year old can provide some significant thrust up a hill. I'm glad I took the small amount of time to take that short ride. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 3:55:25 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Grant mentioned this to me a few weeks ago and I thought I'd pass it > along: "A 10 to 30 minute ride is always a good idea." I really appreciated > this because - although I'm not trying to bust out metric centuries anymore > - I still have a tendency to think short rides don't count as a "real > ride." Of course that's silly, but apparently I needed to be reminded. > Today I had exactly 30 minutes available before work started, so I grabbed > my Bobbin mini velo (Choco-Moose bars) and hit the road. It was fabulous. > > He also said, "You should never do a ride you wouldn't want to do every > day. Well maybe 4 times a year, 5 tops." I love that. > > Joe "just (a short) ride" Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
