When I used to be a little kid, there was nothing more interesting than bike riding. Although I was only allowed to choose a few blocks, it seemed like the whole world to me. I could spend hours and hours driving around the block repeatedly, feeling the wind go by as I flew on my bicycle. When I get a little older, my mom let me drive around the whole subdivision. I was ecstatic. It took very little to keep me happy.
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Now that I’m older, however, I realize the limits of bike riding. Bicycle riding where I live is a pain. There are cars all around you, and most of them are very un-responsive to bike riders. I couldn’t even count how frequent I have almost been hit by ornery drivers trying to get home from work. This is why bike trails are such a popular thing in the Midwest. Without the Michigan bike trails that I go to on the weekends, I don’t know how I’d survive.
My favorite ones are the mountain bike trails. A number of people are amazed to hear, but there is truly some good mountain biking in Michigan. The elevation changes aren’t dramatic, but they make up for it with Lots of quick, steep hills. Bike trail riding is somewhat of a passion among Metro Detroiters. With everything so heavily based around cars in this area, many people need an escape. Without bike paths, I think almost all people would go crazy.
I essentially became involved from our bike club last year due to the fact I was getting so passionate about riding. I had never bought a trail bike, and I didn’t really realize that I was missing anything by using my old beater, but one of my new friends let me try his out. I was amazed. The bike trails fly by when you are on a decent vehicle. It really changed my perspective on things – I couldn’t go back to the hunk of junk that I was using. It was great to belong to a bike club since there were so many people who knew how to create their own bicycles. All I had to perform was get the bike frame and the bike parts and the rest was history. Soon, I was sitting pretty and doing some of the very best riding of my life.
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