So I was riding into town today to meet a friend for lunch. But, because I didn’t want to arrive in my cycling gear walking thought the new Geelong mall – so I took my wife’s mountain bike. The skies threatened rain, the course was long and I learned two things very quickly:
- A headwind all the way into town. This would prove more difficult when I left the ‘rail trail’ and got onto the Open Road.
- A mountain bike is noticeably slower than a road bike. The extra wide tyres and thicker frame could have become a mental obstacle.
But as I was riding, my mind pushing my legs to turn on the slight hills, I started to think if it was a good idea to ride this way into a meeting. A thought occurred to me: “If you don’t ride Epic, then your just commuting”. Man that was cool – and I was preparing myself to say that to Marcus when I met him for lunch.
It was encouraging to think. It was inspirational when I left the rail trail to ride at 13km/h along the road. And it has become the motto of this little site, which is better than the WordPress ripoff of “Another cycling blog…”
I noticed while riding the mountain bike, that there were tufts of grass growing from the road – I never noticed that before – but at low speeds, and riding close to the grass edge they became a great slalom obstacle.
I think I can say that was I was only commuting into to Geelong. Yep, I was not riding Epic – just turning the pedals to get somewhere. But I’m okay with that, I need to get more ride-ready anyway.
Just in case you’d like to see the quote in php, I have coded it up for you:
if( !$Epic ) { echo “Your only commuting!”; } else { echo “This is Epic Riding!”; };