I stumbled across an amazing photo from the 2003 Tour de France at Chain Reaction Bicycles that in many ways and on many levels touched me deeply…and made me think about Johann and the beginning of a love of cycling in him.
Last year we got Johann his first bike. This year both Tammy and I have taken to riding our bikes more, and now we picked up a used “insta-tandem” so we can go for longer rides as a family this summer and fall. It feels real good too (both cycling as a family and leaving the car behind). The past couple times we have been to the cycling shop was for Johann. First we went to get him his own Camelback Mini-Mule (He kept snagging my CamelBak wearing it all day and drinking it dry), then the insta-tandem.
Two of the young ladies who work there are quite taken with him as he discusses the Tour and his favorite riders with them as well as riding. He declared the other day to one of them that he wanted to grow up to be a scientist and cyclist. Typically they recognize me primarily as his father. When we showed up Saturday morning to pick up some new tubes for my bike (horrible flat Friday on the way home from work). They asked where he was. When I indicated he was in the car (with Tammy) they wanted to say “Hi” to him, so I had to bring him in before I could go. They are conspiring to set him up with a Trek KDR 1000 (or it’s then equivilent) as soon as his legs are long enough.
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