Childhood trails

I got back into biking last summer using an old 70s Puch road bike, just going down to the lake everyday.

A couple months ago I picked up this Ross Diamond Cruiser (1982 I think) off of Craigslist for $40. I have slowly but surely been piecing together parts/fixing it up since then. I have no idea what I’m doing but I’m going to mainly keep it original (+ keep all the parts) as it rides fun already.

Biking is a way to see the world in a true and honest way, and as I’ve been biking around these childhood trails in my hometown, it made me realize that the magic we felt as children, largely had to do with the mode of our entry. The way we experienced these places was on foot or on bike, often with the cuts, scrapes, and dirt that the journey left us with. Xbiking is just biking, but biking is beautiful, and magic.