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My bikes over the years

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My first bike i recieved for Christmas in 1984/85 was the Fuji Sagres Great bike. I rode that damn thing till the tires went bald. This is a picture, not mine but what it looked like... thanks to emptychair on flikr...its his bike, but i am using the pic to show the colors that i remember so vividly After that i didn't ride for a long time. My friend dan got me back into cycling on an old bianchi that he had. I rode my first half century on that bike From there i migrated, after he moved to colorado, to my touring series III. It made it to colorado with me, but i ended up dis assembling it and leaving it in my friends storage. I put lots of miles on it and people used to laugh at me trying to train on it seriously. The next bike was a fuji touring series III that i bought for 150 bones in Florida. Although it didn't look like this. It was stripped down to a bare bones road bike After colorado, it was borrowed bikes. I borrowed a bike for about a year and rode the heck...

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Todays entry will be brief, but i realized today that I cannot be without bicycle. I love riding and not being able to get on a bike and work out my frustrations, leaves me mildly incomplete. It is a rush and a breath that can be obtained nowhere else. My bike is beautiful and i love it. I connect with it and without a complaint, it takes me 20, 50, maybe even 100 miles to a place that i have seen but a handful of times. I did visit a great coffee shop today 2 spoons Coffee Company 3829 Plaza Drive Oceanside, CA 92056 (760) 724-1220 I met Derek Caputi, the owner and the day before I had to pleasure of being served by the beautiful Becca. The coffe is fantastic and the atmosphere is very cozy. Free Wi-Fi and right next to performance bike. If you are in San Diego, Drive up to 2 Spoons. Not all coffee is created equal and 2 Spoons has a great cup of Joe. Also, all you cyclists that keep up with my blog, remember to check this place out. Could be a good place to grab a cup of jo...