April Rides

[north woods gal]

We were running errands in town this afternoon and stopped at our local sporting goods store, which also carries bike stuff. Got two cell phone holders for the bikes, but we got to gabbing with one of the gals we knew, there, then forgot and walked off without the cell phone holders. They called us when we got home and told us they would hold them. I figured I might as well ride the bike the 5 miles into town to get them as my ride for the day. Grabbed the Pugsley and went for a ride.

Still a lot of slush on the road, but the Pugsley with its fat tires didn't even notice. What I did notice was the terrible roads in our little town (population 7000). After our long, hard winter, some of them are a pothole minefield. Some stretches would have swallowed a road bike. The Pugs, of course, just rolled over them. Really no worse than trail riding over rocks and tree roots. Didn't bother to go around most of them. That sort of take whatever comes your way on a ride and keep on rolling is why my Pugsley has become such a friend. I do have some much more advanced and up to date bikes, but the Pugs would be the last bike I would ever sell.