Technology to Help You Ride

After doing the last three weekend rides mostly in Pennsylvania I decided to do a ride back in New Jersey this week. It was metric to the Pinelands from Bordentown and a nice flat change of pace. Jack H who I haven't seen in over a year joined us. When we last saw Jack we were at Peace Valley at last years lying bastard ride and his derailleur was stuck in the spokes of his back wheel.  I still don't know how that happened.

The reason we haven 't seen Jack is he had back surgery over the winter and so he was off the bike for a while. It looks like the surgery was successful because Jack seemed to be riding as good as ever. Dave, Joe and Chris also came along. Dave also had some back surgery. In fact he has had surgery this past Tuesday and was already back doing a metric. Although we all drool and desire the latest bike technology to help us improve our riding abilities it is really the advances in medicine that will keep us on our bikes as we age.