A Bicycle Adventure Story

[Grady Wright]

New episode of one of my favorite podcasts is a bicycle adventure story. I hope you will forgive this post for not being Rivendell specific content but I wanted to share it. . .because BIKES. 

Hope ya'll enjoy

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/6nhoak/24-jimmy-and-mark

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

You guys, has no one listened to this episode Grady recommended? No? You have done yourselves a disservice. I am only in the middle of it and had to stop to come back here and write to you! Thank you Grady - I am subscribed now and LOVING IT!

Let me set this up for you. You’re 10 year old, and it’s the 70s. You have the coolest ‘70s father to ever walk the Earth in platform shoes. He’s the type of guy who says late at night, “Who wants to get ice cream?” and extends the invite to however many of your friends can pile in his van. Seat belts? For what? One day your dad tells you he thinks you should ride to your uncle’s house. 240 miles away. Across 2 states. Over the Adirondack Mountains. On your 3 speed bicycle. You still have your baby teeth. Put this story together with a grab-your-gut-funny host that will make folks in other cars look sideways at you during your fits of laughter at stoplights.

And that is where I leave you.
Leah

[dougP]

That's the ultimate "it's not about the bike" bike story.  What different paths their lives followed.  It really is amazing what a person can do when they don't know they can't. 

dougP

[Leah Peterson]

When I got my two bear cubs (ages 13 and 10, the exact ages of Jonathan and John) back from school, I sat them down and played this podcast while they ate their snacks. They were wide-eyed. It would be like riding their bikes to Los Angeles from Vegas. Maybe a little shy of Jonathan/John’s trip, actually. And to your point, Doug, you know those 70s boys had no racks! They likely hauled their stuff in backpacks on their backs. Over mountains.

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[Ed Fausto]

Thanks Grady!

Nice one :-)

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[in Dallas nick]

This reminds us me of a book from 1969

by Fred Bauer called

 'How Many Hills to Hillsboro?'

I see the book listed on ebay.

I read it years and years ago.

It was one of the books that inspired me to try bicycle touring.

It's about a family of 5 , the Bauer family from New Jersey, 

the parents in their early 30's,

with 3 kids, 13, 11, and 3 years old.

They decided to spend a 

summer vacation cycling across the USA.

They started in New York City and  made it about 2000 miles to 

Albuquerque,  New Mexico.

The Dad was carrying the 3 year old in a child seat.

They were not seasoned cyclists.

They rode 4 new Schwinn 5 speeds of that time and were overall ill equipped from what I recall but just persisted and kept pedaling for about 8 weeks averaging 45 miles per day.

At the end they ran out of time and needed to get back home.

At any rate what an adventure for that family!

It would be interesting to hear the children's recollections of that eventful summer vacation. 

Safe pedaling to all,

Paul in Dallas 

[DHans]

Fantastic. One of the guys says it makes him think of freedom. That’s the thing a bicycle gives kids and adults. Thanks for sharing this Grady.
Doug