Commuting

My School and Work

This past week, I rode more than I’ve ever ridden in one day and it felt really good. I definitely can do more than 26 miles. On Thursday I rode to work and back, then to school and back, and then to school again. I didn’t ride it back home because we had an art show to go to as a family and my wife needed help with the kids after that so we just carried the bike bake on the trunk. Anyway I ended up riding about 16 or 17 miles. So although it wasn’t consecutive, it was a great workout and I had a lot of fun. It would have been more fun had it not been just for commuting purposes, but I still enjoyed it.

Cactus

After nearly 20 years of experience biking I’ve acquired a little bit of wisdom in regards to what you should and shouldn’t do. I’ll take this opportunity to impart some of that hard earned wisdom to you.

Don’t ride on cactus…or cacti for that matter. In case you haven’t noticed, they’re not tire friendly. Of course, this comes with a story.

Many years ago when I was a young teen I went biking with the scouts on some trails at Two Moon Park in Billings, MT. I have never enjoyed biking on trails very much because I always seem to fall or somehow get hurt. Call me weird for not wanting to get hurt or for not enjoying pain but it just isn’t much fun. Anyhow, we were riding I followed the whole troupe off the trail and I somehow managed to be the only one to hit the small clump of cacti. I couldn’t really ride my bike much further which is understandable considering I had a total of 12 thorns in my tires. The funny thing is that I didn’t know how much inner tubes cost so I patched every hole. For future reference, just replace the tube.