Boone

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do--
not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I feel we should learn never to become discouraged."

-- Pres. Heber J. Grant

Monday, June 23, 2008

Niels and his bike

Niels loves to bike. He was into road biking way before we were married. He used to live in Park City (waaaaay back when) and rode his bike everywhere. Well everything but his frame died with all that use and he hasn't really biked since we've been married. We carried the frame around in several of our moves all with his hopes of "rebuilding" it. That never happened and a friend of his said it would be more than a new bike anyway. The new frames are so much lighter and better than his 20+ year old one. So we finally got rid of it. Not that we haven't tried since then to get him going. We bought a used bike from someone at his old work in Utah, but he was never able to ride it without severe arm pain. So I broke down and put a nice Trek bike that was on sale on Layaway for him for Father's Day. He LOVES it, and so far has been riding it a lot. The best part is with this bike they spent 1.5 hours getting him fitted just right! This shop is definitely a specialty shop and they know their bikes! I'm hoping he will also get out there and join some of the group rides they do. 


1 comment:

Cindy said...

You go Niels. I love road biking and I got a new bike last year and I haven't even rode it once this year because I am usually pulling the girls in the trailer and they say don't use your good bike for pulling a trailer. Anyway, here's to you getting back into something you love. The best part about being a roadster is the shorts of course. Jeremy is always razzing me when I'm wearing my riding shorts