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Published by bryan | Filed under journal entries
07 Mar 07For a couple years I’ve been enjoying riding a road bike. Last year I picked up my dream bike, a Specialized Roubaix comp, as light as a feather. It truly feels like you are riding on carpet. But I kept noticing my wrists hurt when I rode for more than two hours, and my back started hurting too. A friend told me that I might go in and get a better fitting to see if I was on the right bike. I ended up going to a bike shop in Nashville called Gran Fondo and had a great experience. Lynn, the owner, spent the better part of an hour sizing me up. He measured me and then put me on a machine to measure foot size, leg length and torso length. When he entered the numbers the computer revealed I had normal leg length but my arms and torso were a bit long. They don’t even make a bike for me. He set up a bike-contraption-machine (it took him about fifteen minutes to dial it in) and had me sit on it. After we changed out the handle-bars, I realized there was an entire new level of comfort I had yet experienced. So I am selling my Specialized (oh, so hard. It weighs just over sixteen pounds!) and am picking up a steel-framed bike from Independent Fabrication outside of Boston. It’s a bit more expensive, but I am tired of riding with aching wrists. That bike should last me about thirty years. The only bad news is I have to wait 8 weeks to get the bike, then use some frequent flyer miles to go back to Nashville to have the components adjusted to fit perfectly. All that to say, if you bike, go in and get a fitting. I will definitely be riding all summer to save on gas and hopefully make up for the added cash. It isn’t awful, but it is a pinch. I can’t wait for the summer season.
And on that note, Portland has a great biking community. If you’re up for a summer trip, in mid-august the entire town (not the entire town, but about 18,000 people) come out to do the Portland Bridge Pedal. It’s a liesurely 30-mile ride that crosses all the major bridges in Portland. Time to start warming up those legs!
http://www.bikeportland.org/ (Bike culture in Portland)
http://www.granfondocycles.com/ (The outfit in Nashville. Ask for Lynn)
http://www.ifbikes.com/ (The company in Boston making my bike)Don
June 14th, 2007 at 9:58 am
So, I realize this is a crummy way for me to get a hold of you… cause I’m pretending to post a comment about your journal entry… which is great by the way, but in all honesty, I picked this one cause no one else left a comment on here so I thought maybe this one would be a good way to grab your attention. So… that said… I saw you last night at Willow Creek Church. It was amazing. The Whole experience, especially being able to tell you how much I appreciate Ch. 7 of Blue Like Jazz. “I used to be a fundamentalist once…” simple statement, huge meaning. So anyway… Last night you quoted Robert McKee and you ended the night with this statement… “Write everyday, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear.” Not to remind you of what you said… I only re-qoute it because I really want to have that whole statement, but I could only get down those lines before the screen changed. On my way back home I had the thought that maybe I could actually do what I want to do, but fearing that it is too big, I caught myself saying outloud “but that would be scary.” Immediately I laughed cause I remembered what you said… “as soon as you come up with this great ambition, you’re going to be scared!” Whoa! If there’s anyway you could get the rest of that quote to me, it’d be awesome! Thanks so much for your words, and don’t ever stop writing. When you get stumped or don’t have the words to say, that statement by Robert McKee is my prayer for you… “Write everyday, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear.”