the GOT bike

 Have I mentioned that before? Maybe. Regardless, one aspect I often, frequently, but granted not always, like about bikes is the people that ride them. Yesterday I enjoyed repeated examples of that. Despite periodic drizzle, but never truly rain, it was a biker kind of day. I had a late morning COVID vax appointment at the Hadley Senior Center (I try to avoid for profit pharmacy vaccinations if possible), to which I had changed from my original appointment in my own town of Granby at the end of this month. Hadley had two advantages. While not closer, it was a more desirable ride, just off the Norwattuck Rail Trail, and it also boosted my protection two weeks earlier, so the switch felt like a win and a win. As opposed to this past Saturday, when I rode through East Hampton after a morning group run at Mount Tom, yesterday I remembered to bring the rear wire baskets I had offered to Alexis, the rider and MassBike employee who lives there. When I reached out in the morning, I joked ...