WHOO-HOO!!! It's that time again! Bike Boogie!! Yesssss....
Everyone in Peddie is invited to join in the first Bike Boogie!! of the season, a low key bike ride designed to strip away your cares and woes as you pedal through some surprisingly delightful New Jersey farmland in the soft quiet of a Sunday morning. This is a "People's Ride," and you don't have to be a fancy pants cyclist (Lycra?) for this, though Peddie's go-fast people are frequent participants, all lovely, kind people and nifty riding pals for first time Bike Boogie-ers. Don't fret about whether your enough of a rider for this. Heck, how can you worry anyway? We're riding bicycles, for goodness sake! Sheesh.
Participants include faculty and staff, partners and pals of Peddie people, freshmen and PGs, younger brothers and sisters, football players, swimmers, theatre folks, center campus people, grill people, left-handers, right-handers, the ambidextrous, the part my hair on the right people, people with no hair organization at all (think "that new boy who might be Will O'Connor's hip-twin"), people who need to stretch, and people built with flexo-doodle bodies that bounce softly (think Derek Lam). If you can breathe and can ride a two wheeler at the same time, and if you think getting out for a spin and feeling cool again like the third grader you once were might be good for your spirit at the end of the first week of Peddie, come on out.
We gather in front of the Walter and Lee's Science Center at 10.30 am, giving us time to get to brunch right at 10.00 and fuel up. We usually head out ten miles or so (not far on a bike), stop somewhere thereabouts for food and drink and chatting, and then head home. Back by 1.00 or so, faster people earlier.
- What you need :
-a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road.
- What I can provide for a few:
-a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road....but only if you let me know ahead of time so I can scare up enough gear. My supply of loaners is small.
Interested? Reply and let me know that you?re interested, or are thinking about riding. Need gear? You must let me know via e-mail, so I can find supplies. Even so, no guarantees.
By the way, check out that picture of Big Al on a bike, and get a whiff of how smart you can be if only you ride your bike. Word has it that old Albert conjured up the relativity thing while riding his bike. I'll bet that that's true. And if it's not, I know for sure it ought to be true. Anyway, we can all pretend it is true, since it would be nice to be cool, and smart, like Albert. And HE rode a bike. Some come on out and be a genius on a two-wheeler yourself. And Extra snaps for people riding in a sweater-vest like A.E?s. Or for anyone riding a bike like A.E.?s (hmmm? Paul Watkins????) . Or that hair. Yikes.
-- PJClements
Lovely, lovely it was, riding on Sunday, 21 miles through the sleeping village of Roosevelt, through the morning sharpness of the Assunpink preserve, talking with riders and their horses - well whispering to horses actually, since we didn't want to spook them, or let anyone think we were odd.
