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Thanks for sharing
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10-28-2007, 10:53 AM #1
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Mother in Law's Column about our bike outing...
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http://www.bluffcountryreader.com/ma...39&TM=53369.96
A few weeks ago, my DH and I went for a bike ride with my mother in law and her husband. She writes for an arty newspaper in SE MN and decided to make a column of it.
I think it's cute the way people who don't ride much see the riding that we do as "almost professional."
Apparently in the print version, there's a cute picture...wish it were included here. Oh well! Happy reading!2007 Trek 5000
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"I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."
Susan B. Anthony, 1896
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10-28-2007, 04:46 PM #2
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10-28-2007, 08:50 PM #3
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Sweet! I like your father-in-law realizing that "at 55 he can bike with the best of them!" (I resemble that remark... hee hee!)
So glad you guys got them biking again!"If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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10-29-2007, 05:43 AM #4
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Very nice article. Thanks for sharing it with us.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." ~Benjamin Franklin
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10-29-2007, 08:29 AM #5
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nice story . . .
Thanks for posting the note about riding with your in-laws. I think that it's very common for folks who don't participate in a sport to see those who do participate on a regular basis as "professionals". While I am in no way an active rider as most women on this site, my friends are impressed that I ride, oh say, 30 miles on one ride -- which is nothing compared to most avid riders.
In respect to bike riding well into one's 50's, I started roller blading several years ago because I saw senior citizens flying around Lake Harriet on their roller blades. I realized that, if they could do it (and do it well), I could certainly start roller blade in my 40's. Of course, I have since given up roller blading for riding. Next summer I hope to throw in wind surfing as a new sport which may fit in well with bike riding. Windy/warm days -- wind surfing, all the other days -- bike riding
- VivianVMax in MN
