Quote Originally Posted by AnnieBikes View Post
and anyone knows that cyclists are all awesome people!!!
We had a few more WS people stay with us this past summer. A couple, for whom we went out of our way to help out, had an air of condesending about them, as our place may not have been as posh as they would have liked.

Another guy, who we accommodated on very short notice, and my bf helped him out a lot tuning his beat up LHT. We sold the guy a set of down tube shifters and he said he would pay us when he returned home ($40). At that time we emailed him to remind him and he gave us the proverbial middle finger about the whole deal. We took our name off WS after that. We also let the guy who runs WS, who lives in town here, we know him, know about this, not that he could do anything about it.

Anyways, we also met Zach on WS. 18 years old from St Paul. He graduated HS in June and got on his bike, a very old Novara Randonee, and pedaled west to see the country. He wanted to stop a while in my area and find some outdoor work to earn money for his ride. He spent a few days with us, calling every farm and orchard around. He found a peach orchard to work in, pitching his tent among the trees. On the weekends he'd visit us and we'd go yardsaling on bikes (he's very thrifty). After a months work he continued west to California. He ended up in WA visiting relatives for a while before returning to MN by train. He still calls us every week or two to catch up on life. He makes up for all those not-so-nice people we met before him.