On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 7:53:03 PM UTC-4, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > This week I'm spending a few days with my mom in my childhood home in > Yorba Linda. I'm right in the middle of a six-week sabbatical from work > and right in the middle of the cycling challenge I gave myself. I'm trying > to ride 200 miles on each of 10 bikes during the months of August, > September and October. I've finished up with 5 bikes so far. > > While I'm in Yorba Linda, my only responsibility is to help my mom around > the house. She only works me for a few hours each day, and so I have > plenty of time to ride the bike I have stashed in my mom's garage (a second > Black Mountain Cycles Road bike). Riding this bike activates my insurance > policy for the HubbuHubbuH tandem. It's going to be tough getting 200 > miles in on the tandem, but it's looking likely that I will be able to get > 200 miles in on BMC#2. Whether that means I end up logging 200x11 or > 200x10 remains to be seen. Here's my BMC#2 in front of the Marine 1 > helicopter that took Richard Nixon away from DC after resigning: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-znSIMLoqAm0/WbsTgN5lVjI/AAAAAAAADlg/gGm-TG-fkVsq_pbHrJhz6xkCjZ4DYLqrgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_2143.JPG> > > Right after taking this picture, I got back on the bike path. A man and a > woman on bikes were chatting there and the man said "Nice bike, I saw you > out yesterday too". I admired his fat tires, and approached them to chat. > He was on a Diamond Back Haanjo with WTB Horizons. We chatted back and > forth for a bit, and the guy said "Wait a minute, what's your name?" I > told him I was Bill Lindsay, and he said "You're Bill Lindsay! In high > school you drove a $100 Volvo wagon with a $300 bike rack with a $1000 bike > on it!". Turns out he was close friends with a group that I sometimes hung > out with. He claims that my passion for cycling at 16, 17 years old showed > him that cycling was cool. He bought a mountain bike in 1988, got into > cycling and got into the bike industry. He's a BikeRumor author now, among > other things. I had no clue I could have influenced somebody's life by > just being a bike geek. The woman with him turned out to be his sister, > and the state time trial champion. I'm going to my 30th High School > Reunion Saturday night and I feel like I've already gotten my blast from > the past already. That kind of interaction makes a 60 miler fly by. > > > Bill Lindsay > > formerly Yorba Linda, CA > >
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