For an individual who has ridden Mountain Bikes during the last 20 odd years my guys thought it was very strange that all of a sudden I developed a keen interest in road bikes. At first I do believe the main appeal of road bikes was for fitness reasons, around I ride my Mtb I don’t seem to feel any different, and thought that perhaps road bikes may well bring on some results.
One more reason is the fact that I believe I’ve constantly admired road bikes and their riders, if you see the professionals operating their road bikes on the TV the road bikes look so stylish and sleek, and the riders seem like they’ve incredible endurance and fitness. Picture how much I possibly could improve at all other sports which i take part in, at the level of fitness that you see from the Pros riding their road bikes.
Although some my fellow Mountain Bike fanatic buddies mocked my out of the blue love of Road Bikes, one of them did agree that for training reasons road bikes were a fantastic way of getting fit, in reality he had one! So on his advice I went out and purchased a road bike.
After buying one and spending a long time riding on my very first weekend, my passion for road bikes appeared to get worse, I’d ride it night and day for as many hours as I could. Sometimes i’d join with others riding their road bikes near my town, and steadily I got into road bike races and events. In the mean time, the Mountain Bike has collected dust inside garage.
If someone had explained in the past that I would be riding road bikes and not mountain bikes sometime in the future I might have told them where to go, however all I do is think about road bikes, speak about road bikes and ride road bikes. My friends are bored with me and don’t have much to do with me, as a result of my passion with road bikes.
I don’t let any one of this get me down though, I still have my passion for road bikes to help keep me happy, and I think i will still be riding road bikes until I’m too old t, and even then, I like to think that even though I’m too old to ride, my grandkids will be told about all my days riding road bikes.
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