Cleaning, organizing my hard drive I come across this photo of me from the early 90s. This photo was taken one morning before I headed off to work on my bike. There was a real brief period that I tried commuting by bike ( I say a month, Nova says a day).
Although it’s a relatively short distance to my place of employment it just didn’t work out for me. I envy those who commute by bike and have the resolve to overcome what are probably the same obstacles that I encountered.
I don’t remember much from this period except for the following…
I had taken a liking to Nova’s Centurion and was riding it instead of my Schwinn. I believe it fit me better. Also riding home one evening I had a flat and was not carrying tools or a patch kit (I can’t believe I was riding without this stuff). Luckily for me another cyclist come upon me and stopped. He lent me his tools and gave me his spare tube. Once the tube was replaced we rode together till we reached his house which was right on my route. I thanked him again and continued on my way. The next day I brought two spare tubes with me dropping one of them off on his porch on my ride home.
Speaking of the Schwinn and the Centurion… We sold them as a pair once we took up mountain biking. Approximately 10 years later we seen them side by side at a used bicycle shop.
