More to the cycling

I knew there was more to what I wanted to write about when it came to cycling yesterday. I loved riding on campus. I never brought by bike to campus much after freshman year. If you knew what I paid for it you'd probably have done the same thing.

Just because I didn't have my bike there didn't mean that I didn't want to have it there. I wanted to have it. I wanted to be able to ride it around but there were a lot of problems for me. You have to blow up the tires in my bike about everyday so it makes little sense to just take it around campus because by the time you set your bike up you could have probably already walked to where you needed to be.

On top of that I would not want to have to lock up my bike. I needed to lock up both my wheels because the wheels can come off the bike pretty easily. (not when you are riding of course) You don't need any tools to get the wheels off.

The weather sucks so often that I wouldn't want to ride my bike in Storrs unless it's September, October, April or May.

The other problem is the fact that I go pretty fast on my bike. When there is a lot of car traffic or people traffic I am constantly on my brakes and that drives me crazy. If it's flat I'm easily going 20mph. Sometimes I can pick it up to 25 or more for bursts when I feel like getting my heart rate up...or moving. When I am on my bike I like to move quickly. I rarely go at a leisurely pace. I almost don't know what that pace is, even though I rode like that with Nanners.

So anyway for numerous reasons I don't usually have my bike on campus, but I always wish that I could have it there. It felt awesome to be able to ride around Hilltop Apartments and ride by Gampel. I rode past my old building for the first time since I left it. There were slightly more cars than I expected, but still not many were there. Campus was pretty desolate which was a good thing since I was cycling. I didn't have to stop every two seconds for people.