Stand up the adult at the back there who just said there is no cycling fun to be had any more because the roads are so busy nowadays, and are not safe for cyclists.

My answer to that is to get off the streets and get some cycling fun in around the cycle paths of the many towns and cities that are catering more and more for the needs of leisure cycling and necessity cycling.

Just go to New York’s Central Park and see how much cycling fun is being had by so many people. There are a lot of people using the many paths and byways of New York’s 2 square mile green patch.

Even on the streets, the numbers of cyclists are growing steadily year on year.

Perhaps to look at it another way; cycling fun can be looked at as to how many dollars you can save by leaving the car in the garage and cycling into the city or doing the shopping, instead of one big shop, little and often every day.

In Paris and London over in Europe, a network of cycle routes and free bicycle ‘hire’ has proven to be a huge success and is expanding to meet demand. Indeed, some cycling fun must be had by some people, it can’t all be work related.

When I was a little boy (too many years ago to mention) one of my favorite bits of bicycling fun was to sit my best friend on my handlebars (or vice versa), and let the bike roll down the slope of the field, and see how fast we could go before we tumbled off in a heap on the floor giggling and laughing. Looking back I sometimes wonder how we NEVER broke our necks.

However, you don’t have to practice dangerous sports on a bicycle to have loads of fun. Just out riding with friends, taking a small picnic between you makes for great bicycling fun, especially in the summer when the days are long and warm, and the evenings light and balmy (especially in Alaska where the days in high summer seem to go on forever, but beware the mosquitoes).

If you want to have some bicycling fun now is the time to buy a new bicycle, get the legs, lungs and other bits of the body on standby and get out there in the wide open world. Cycling opens up a whole new world of aromas of flowers and grasses, and sounds you just don’t hear from the inside of a moving car.

Go on, buy a bike now, or get the old one out, clean it up and get riding. You won’t regret it.

Filed under: Cycling Today

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