I’ve finally decided that I am a
“cruiser by choice”
I don’t think I could ride “Dirt Jumping”, “Downhill”, “Cross-country (XC) cycling” or “BMX”. Come to think of it I don’t think I could even ride “Mountain Biking”.
It comes as no surprise that I am also not a “Roadie”. So what am I when it comes to bicycle riding? Nothing really!
I enjoy doing things which have me…
… acquaint, appreciate, comprehend, deduce,
detect, determine, differentiate, discern, distinguish,
enlighten, experience, explore, extract, familiarise,
fathom, gather, grasp, glimpse, hear, learn, locate,
notice, observe, perceive, recognise, reveal, sense, …
So just getting on a bike and riding a road (bitumen or gravel), track or trail (well worn or overgrown) will satisfy me. I can think of many reasons for covering the same stretches of the local journeys I go on and I can also think of more, possibly, reasons to turn down a different route the next time I come past.
I can not think of putting all my eggs in one basket and trying to excel in a style of riding that will see me miss out on any opportunities to go through my list. Maybe I am missing other experiences but life is too short to try to fit everything in, god I am sounding old but if, as our dopey Deputy Mayor says
