The Thrill

Embrace the thrill of cycling in your daily life. Cycling is something that a lot of people have enjoyed once in their life, maybe at 7 years old for Christmas when they got their first bike.

Past that age when was the last time in your adult years that you were really able to take advantage of that enjoyment that you’ve had in the past?

I want to talk about how the thrill of cycling and being able to see things and feel nature and the environment kept me coming back to cycling. It was like not a drug but an extra vitamin I never knew was there, and enhanced my social life in many ways that I can’t help but love.

This thrill I speak about is when you’re rushing at high-speed on a bike, cycling from tree to tree and how it just puts a smile on my face. This is also the reason why you remember that time you cycled in the past so fondly I spoke about before.

Who do you know cycling in your immediately circle?

If you can name one or more people cycling in your circle and you never rode with them once, then you might have a problem.

Cycling is not just an activity for exercise as many people make them seem to be, it’s also a very social way of connecting people through in-person groups, email, forums, etc…

I was able to find them though through cycling to my downtown area plenty, discovering and talking to people while riding around where I live.

You also want to recognize that everyone lives in a different type of place with a different culture, I grew up in Illinois but now I’m in Florida and despite the heat I see way more people cycling here in Florida in the flat-lands.

I want you to take into account Cycling is for everyone, but if you still haven’t learned how to cycle yet I assure you it takes hours, and at most a couple days to learn. Once you do it you’ll love it, you’ll enjoy the thrill of it. You’ll connect on a social level with the community around you and I assure you it’ll be worth it!

Now listen, I’ve gone on many trails, traveled across the United States the place I live to places like Arizona, from hiking actively to pedaling on grass paths through fields as such in THIS PICTURE from Slough UK overlooking the prairies.

What you can do with knowing the trails in your area is being able to take an easy path by foot, by bike to the destination you want to get to & what makes it so much easier is when you plan your trip. PS: Engineers Suck don’t use the Signs.

#1. Look up the terrain on your phone with google maps satellite view, ask yourself is it something that is worth walking or biking on for more than 10 minutes?

Listen we’re talking about cars, rotted pavement, bikers, people in the way, sometimes it is worth it to take the long way instead of the google maps route.

#2. How many trees does the route have?

A route being pleasant has a lot to do with tree coverage, it’s the summer as I’m typing this and in most places there is a famine of trees. One of my favorite routes is going through an office lined street because there’s oak trees covering the median and sides of the street paths.

#3. How much time do you want to spend on it?

My longest bike ride without any transportation in-between was 2 hours, I spend lots of time using different transportation modes most of the time to get places so I don’t worry too much about water; yet it’s good to recognize what you might need. Maybe you’re doing a daily bike commute and wanted to try a different route, or hop on the bike share in the city you’re visiting just know there’s so many routes to get to different places and there’s always going to be benefits and drawbacks of another. Always be prepared.