Inflection Point | Peter Flax
I think I could learn something from the young me who is smiling in all those pictures. My life is of course different now — I have a family and a career and have an existence defined by obligations — but I think my riding life could really use more unstructured randomness. I don’t get on my bike and fart around the way I used to. I spent 15 years chasing fitness and camaraderie, increasingly choosing the weekly world championship over the solo ramble. And now, I’m oversaturated in exploring the utility of the bicycle. I honestly can’t tell you the last time I just got on a bike and spent the better part of a day wandering the countryside, not using my bike as functional transportation or thinking about holding a wheel. This is something I want back.
