Re: [Paddlewise] The difference between Paddling and Pedaling

  Glad to hear the knew knee is holding up! They seem to have made great 
improvements of late!

On 9/4/2010 9:08 AM, Craig Jungers wrote:
>
> In general I found it quite easy to transfer paddling obsession to pedaling
> obsession (and vice-versa) but I have much less money involved in my bikes
> due to their rapid depreciation. My main focus for biking was at first
> simply to gain greater flexibility in my new knee (and to finally beat the
> 8-year-old girl living across the street who could wax my wheelchair-bound
> butt riding her pink Barbie bike on our daily trips to the play-park ten
> blocks away). The two sports correlate and compliment easily. On a trip to
> the coast one could load up a kayak and a mountain bike and explore beaches
> from both sides of the land-water interface. Which explains why I see so
> many vehicles on the freeways with bikes on the back and kayaks on the top.
>
> I'm pretty happy with my new-found ability to pedal a bicycle. And I can
> beat that 8-year-old. Except, as it turns out, that damn Barbie bike can
> turn corners faster than I can on my big mountain bike. D'oh!
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