I did some grocery shopping this morning. It was a beautiful morning and as soon as I had my duties performed, I went riding. The sidewalk was busy my first time riding South but traffic thinned after that. I will guess that I saw ten cyclists today but most were during my first loop. I was a bit surprised the walk didn't remain busy all day. The weather was definitely enticing.
I saw a kid today that was riding a low profile high powered e-bike in a park that I ride by. He was on the sidewalk and I on the road parallel to him. He blew by me like I was sitting still and I was doing 22 mph. He rode by two boys that got off the sidewalk as he shot by them. They flipped him off and he stopped, cut a couple of donuts in the grass, flipped them off and away he went. I blame the parents for spoiling such a little brat and buying him such a powerful, basically illegal, bike that he obviously has no business riding. I'm afraid it's abuse like that will cause laws to limit the power of bikes.
As I was finishing up my second ride, I ran across the guy I bought the used Aquilla from. He said he just couldn't give up riding and was riding a ride1up bike. It looked like the RCS and the Aquilla in build and with similar specs. He was telling me he has a buddy that has eight thousand miles on his bike. He said he told his friend that I had that many miles on my bike and then he asked.. just how many miles do you have on your bike. When I told him that as we were parked on the corner that the odometer read 23,540 miles. He had to grab a pic to show his buddy.
It was so nice today that I had to ride one more time after dinner. I only saw a couple walking together on the sidewalk. I guess everyone else had enough great weather and went home. I rode until it was getting dark. I would have ridden longer if I had more daylight. I logged 108 miles today. It was an excellent day to be a cyclist.