Posted by Daniel Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:48:00 GMT

I’m not big on goals. I think I’ve made that clear.

I’m especially not big on cycling goals, for me cycling stuff (at least for now) is more health related than cycle related. So measuring cycling stuff induces behavior that my wife finds er, umm, disturbing, at the least. Health goals, on the other hand she can get behind with a bit more enthusiasm. Anyway, I went for a ride with a cycling buddy, the aforementioned “Jenni”, with whom I knocked back quite a few miles this past season. She’s always fun to ride with, and has a great attitude. She’s been calling herself an “ice pansy” because she doesn’t like riding in the cold, but she had a goal to reach 1500 miles this year, and that was that, cold or no. I met up with her to spin around the lake and polish off her last 8 miles. We did a bit more, but her toes were cold (she’s not entirely equipped for cool weather riding), and so at 12.5 miles she called it quits. As we rode we talked and during our discussion today, I told Jenni that I don’t have any goals, but I realized that’s not true. I do have one.

I want to take my son on a bike ride. Well, sort of. He’s not even two ‘fer gosh sakes! But we now have a trailer courtesy of All The Junk Glenn Ebayed (tm), and I can’t wait to take him. And a related, biking-with-my-whole-nuclear-family-unit goal, enabled by the trailer and the ability to take carry Noah inside., which frees my wife to join in the fun (whereas before we would have to take turns, and she was decidedly uninterested.

Sorry Jenni, I have one afterall.

And for the fact that I have a goal at all… I apologize to Seth. BTW, Congrats on the baby. Man is your life gonna change :~), And how incredibly wonderful of you both. I wonder if this is gonna kill our spring ride? :~)

PS Glenn of Piermont Bikes will EBay pretty much whatever you drag in there (with a few caveats on size and weight for the moment) for store credit. No percentage is taken off the top, and his prices are from decent to excellent. More importantly, he’s really pleasant and easy to work with… I have another more favorite shop, but Glenn has earned a lot of business from me because of this policy, and I’m on the verge of buying a second not cheap bike from him because of it. Recommended.