I’ve just lost my job at Microsoft as part of their global cutbacks of 10,000 employees so I’ve got time on my hands right now and riding the R&M more than ever and still love getting on it every time.
Put a pannier on the rear yesterday and added a couple of tennis rackets, balls, drink bottles and sun hats and e-biked to play tennis with my wife in the sun yesterday morning (benefit of being temporarily without a job!) and it was way more fun biking there and back than getting in a car.
Then took the eMTB out for a forest blast in the afternoon near the beach:
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I’m also planning a “redundancy ride” on my gravel bike, a two week jaunt around the South Island of New Zealand