Greetings from the Sierras

[Sierratim]

I've been posting for a bit and realized I should have introduced myself. I'm a retired engineer (electrical and computer science) living with my loving wife (an engineering geologist) of nearly 50 years in California's beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains. We cycle for fun and exercise and for the last 15+ years, vacationing on cycling tours. We're both 70 this year and have noticed we're slowing down, hence the ebikes.

Our youngest sons are avid mountain bikers, coaching the high school team they raced with some years ago. We both volunteered for 6+ years with the local Bicycle Recycle project, a middle school bicycle kitchen focused on teaching middle schoolers to refurbish donated bikes that are then donated to homeless groups. Very satisfying, but eventualy way too many sick kids sent to school by parents too busy to care for their own kids. We both learned a lot under the tutelage of the certified bike mechanic instructors.

I continue to coach the Scouting Bicycle Merit Badge. I suppose that I like having much younger parents surprised that I, at 70 years old, can out ride just about all of them, and still teach their children about bicycle safety and maintenance.

So there you have it. Another old guy on an ebike happy to share what little I really know.

 

[indianajo]

Welcome to the site.
Glad you have spread the culture of biking to the new. I learned from my father, and he didn't know a lot. Enjoyed silent transportation on the front of Mother's 1946 Firestone cruiser in a seat built by my father out of steel & masonite stock. 1953-1956. Took me a whole year to stop falling down on my own bike, so I never gave it up. Can't dance, can't catch or throw a ball, do a sommersault, slow runner, but I can ride a bicycle, still.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I've been posting for a bit and realized I should have introduced myself.

And your name is Tim, I presume?

 

[Sierratim]

Thanks for the welcome. Lots of good info here. Even met a rider in Poland. My wife's Polish. We've talked about doing a bike tour there. Who knows, might even get to meet the Pole I met here. Stranger things have happened.

Me too about the dancing and stuff. Things I could do well (canoeing, scuba diving...) are just getting to hurt too much now. So, cycling it is!

 

[Sierratim]

And your name is Tim, I presume?

Guilty as charged.