Ok, so if you read it, i have another thread about getting another bike in a year or so. After starting to reply to a question about how many miles i do a year, i really started to get depressed. I have done next to no riding at all this year. Like NOTHING, i started the season around 7500 miles, (just from last year). i would be willing to say that if i went to my ODO i would have less than 9000. Thats horrible.
Then i started to think of why. And then i got even more depressed.
In july i got laid off, so there goes about 100 miles a week of just riding to work. Then a week after that we find out that my wife is pregnant, so she doesnt want to/cant ride anymore. so there goes all our "running errands" rides. Then about a month later we find out she is no longer pregnant, so that kinda bummed me out and i wasnt in the mood to ride for a few weeks.
And here is the list of fallen buddies... and these are ALLL the people i ride with. As in the ONLY people i know with bikes.
-Kirk: Away to bike week for a week, then comes home and has to put bike in the shop for 3 weeks, out for a month
-Mike: loaned his bike to a buddy who wrecked it, out entire summer
-Mark: Tboned a truck that pulled out in front of him, out for a month
-Dan: Wrecked bike in march, didnt get it bakc till july, and not able to ride till aug only 30 min intervals pretty much out all summer
-Greg: blew up engine in spring, out all summer
-Jason: sold bike in the winter, out for good
-Jared: guy who laid me off in july, awkward....
-Dave: Finally got his bike out of storage, then moved an hour away. out 99% of summer
-Jeremy: realized that when you dont pay your bike loan back it gets repo'd out half of the summer.
Now tell me, how depressing is that? That is literally every person that i ride with. All being out for an extended period of time. And to be honest, im really not a lone rider, i will do it, but really only when i go from place to place, i really just dont like riding along, its lonely.
Hopefully everything turns around next summer, i would really love to have another 7500 mile summer, this one was pathetic...
Then i started to think of why. And then i got even more depressed.
In july i got laid off, so there goes about 100 miles a week of just riding to work. Then a week after that we find out that my wife is pregnant, so she doesnt want to/cant ride anymore. so there goes all our "running errands" rides. Then about a month later we find out she is no longer pregnant, so that kinda bummed me out and i wasnt in the mood to ride for a few weeks.
And here is the list of fallen buddies... and these are ALLL the people i ride with. As in the ONLY people i know with bikes.
-Kirk: Away to bike week for a week, then comes home and has to put bike in the shop for 3 weeks, out for a month
-Mike: loaned his bike to a buddy who wrecked it, out entire summer
-Mark: Tboned a truck that pulled out in front of him, out for a month
-Dan: Wrecked bike in march, didnt get it bakc till july, and not able to ride till aug only 30 min intervals pretty much out all summer
-Greg: blew up engine in spring, out all summer
-Jason: sold bike in the winter, out for good
-Jared: guy who laid me off in july, awkward....
-Dave: Finally got his bike out of storage, then moved an hour away. out 99% of summer
-Jeremy: realized that when you dont pay your bike loan back it gets repo'd out half of the summer.
Now tell me, how depressing is that? That is literally every person that i ride with. All being out for an extended period of time. And to be honest, im really not a lone rider, i will do it, but really only when i go from place to place, i really just dont like riding along, its lonely.
Hopefully everything turns around next summer, i would really love to have another 7500 mile summer, this one was pathetic...