There is always time to hop off the bike and enjoy a good book.

I don’t like when people ask me what kind of bicycle they should get. They usually don’t know what kind of riding they want to do. There is a lot of thought process on deciding what kind of bike they want to ride. When I ask them what kind of riding they are doing the answer is, “I don’t know.”

Mostly I just want to say go to Wal-Mart and by a cheap bike and ride it and see what kind of rider they morph in to. Another easy way out is tell them to get a hybrid bike.  They blend the characteristics of a mountain and road bike for a comfortable and fast ride.

Sometimes a bike rider will go through different bikes during their riding life. Some will have a different bike for each mood.

The thing that irritates me the most is someone who spends money on a bike and it hangs in the garage like a piece of art work or collecting dirt while sitting on flat tires.

I don’t worry about chip paint or if my handle bar tape is wrapped perfect. I just want to ride.

My riding style is a long and slow ride and plenty of stops to take pictures and read a book. If it takes a road bike rider to ride a route in two hours it will probably take me five hours. I don’t knock the roadies, but not my thing.

Love my Novara Safari. Yeah it is heavy, thirty pounds, a tank of a bike. But it can giddy up if I’m feeling good. The Safari goes where I want to go. I fear no dirt trail. Love that it is made of steel, absorbs the bumps of the road.

Just ride and have a good time.

My Top 10 for Now:

1. Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number-One Way

2. Baby-Larry Graham

3. Ode To Billie Joe-Bobbie Gentry

4. Hangin’ On-Al Green

5. Venus Strut-MALTA

6. I Ain’t Going Peacefully-Hank Williams Jr

7. Fantasy Man-Alice Cooper

8. Ballad of Louise-Jeannie C. Riley

9. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah-O.G. Funk

10. You Don’t Exist Anymore-Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials