Heavy Ride
I didn't buy my first bike until I was about 35. Before then, I had bikes that my parents had given me when I was younger or I borrowed my father's bike. While DW and I had been dating, we wanted to go on a bike ride but I was living on my own by then and I didn't have a bike, and I didn't want to borrow my father's. DW's dad collected old bikes and took parts from one to improve another, and he built me a bike that I could use. It was a mountain bike but also used parts from road bikes. I called it a Frankenbike because of how crude it looked, but it worked. I still have that bike to this day. The problem in cycling with DW and the Frankenbike was that she had a light, though antiquated, road bike. When we rode together, she often left me in the dust. The Frankenbike was so heavy that in the early 2000s, I decided to buy a new bike. I think I might have hurt DW's dad's feelings, as he went to the trouble to build me a bike, but it was just too hea...
