7deuce

I know this may not be "cool" but it needs to be said.

I am so fucking horny right now i could... well i can't think of a way to describe exactly how horny I but trust me.

Anyway my point... if anyone wants to help me out with this i would be willing to give you a ticket to the dropkick murphy's on tuesday.

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Next May, some friends and I are going to be participating in a charity bicycle tour along the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine. I will be riding my Gary Fisher mountain bike, while they will be riding their various models of road bikes. They have been trying to convince me to give up my mountain biking for road biking. I can see where they are coming from and have thought seriously about getting a road bike, but something keeps pulling me back towards mountain biking.

I can certainly see that there are a lot of upsides to road biking. The most obvious one being that there will be an over abundance of roads wherever you are. You can step out of your door, onto your bike, and then off you go down the street. One street will lead to another and yet another, until you are miles away, pedaling your way down some rural route, enjoying the scenery. Another upside to road biking is the fact that you dont have to worry about rocks and dead trees being in your way. The only thing that could be wrong with the surface youre riding on would be pot holes and those are generally pretty easy to spot. Some may say that you can do all of this while riding a mountain bike, on the road and it would be just the same but this is not necessarily true.

Though it is true that you can ride a mountain bike on a paved road, the benefit of having a road bike while riding on the road is that you dont have the friction caused by the big knobby tires a mountain bike has. The slimmer tires that a road bike has cause less friction with the road and need less energy to pedal the bike. The reason mountain bikes have the large knobs on the tires is because you need better traction on the loose gravel of off-road trails. The width of the tire is needed to spread out the force of the impact when your wheel hits a root, rock or log.

Though it is much simpler to be a road biker, there are certainly upsides to mountain biking that road biking doesnt have. Foremost on this list is that you dont have to be constantly on alert for cars that might run you off the road. There are cars constantly driving by you while youre on the road. While most drivers are courteous and give you plenty of space, a lot of them think that the road is theirs and that you dont belong on it. Some other positives about mountain biking are the fact that there are rocks and downed trees on the trail. It makes every ride an adventure which is one of the things I like best about mountain biking. I like that even if you ride the same trail every day youre very likely to experience something different every time down it. Then there is the peace you feel, being out in the woods, far away from technology, where it is quiet and serene.

When you are out in the woods alone you never know what you will see. I have seen all kinds of animals; moose, dear, hawks, turkeys, the list goes on and on. I have seen beautiful trees and flowers and have seen gorgeous waterfalls that I would not have seen if I hadnt been out in the middle of nowhere.

Though I occasionally enjoy riding on the road and may even someday invest in a cheaper road bike that I can use on occasion, I think I will always be a mountain biker at heart. I love the fun, adventure and peace it brings me too much to give it up entirely or even for the most part.

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