[zjrog]

I used to ride extensively. In fact at one time I had 13 or so bikes. Including an old Schwinn Varsity ten speed that I had the tubes filled with lead! Thing weighed nearly 50 pounds, but if you could climb a hill with that, you could fly up on anything else! I had fixed gear road and MTB bikes, pulled my small children in an old Cannondale Bugger trailer, could ride a 4 hour century and such. After i moved from Hawaii to California, I was stationed on a ship and had little time to ride, but took a bike when the ship went anywhere. I've ridden in Acapulco, Perth, Tasmania, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong. I REALLY don't suggest riding bikes in Korea or Hong Kong... Singapore was an awesome place to ride. Not to take away from Tasmania or Perth.

But then I sort of fell away from cycling until last year. 13 years off has made me a fatboy! I've been real slow getting back to it, last year we started but my wife developed serious helath issues and I almost lost her. She is a lot better now, but still has problems. But she has asked me to pull her bike out and get it on the trainer for her this weekend. So I'll be freshening her Schwinn hybrid for the trainer, and hope by summer I can get her back on her CannonDale roadie.

I'll freshen my Gary Fisher HooKooEKoo a good friend gave me 3 years ago when I last thought I'd try again. It needs some upgrades but rode great last year. My son has my old Trek MTB at college, he rides it some but not as much as he wants to. And I've decided to replace my old KHS road bike instead of upgrade it. Sad to think of letting it go after all the miles it gave me. But that can wait.

I already feel torn between the two disciplines. But look forward to taking a bike to Moab someday, on the back of my Jeep...

Roger