the GOT bike

First, I acknowledge George from Northampton for this post's title. I first met George when he spearheaded at attempt to have the Norwattuck Rail Trail cleared of show in the winter. Half happily, we're half way there, and the DCR now plows from Northampton to the turn off to University Drive in Amherst, even now including the bridge across the Connecticut River. Winter is a cold time for swimming. I met George again when I started helping fix up bikes in his program, Bikes for All. A week ago I again joined the Trail Blasters junior mountain bike group for the Friday evening fest at Earl's Trails. The previous Monday had been the first of the junior cyclocross races at Look Park, also organized by Tom, the head of Trail Blasters. I'd been impressed by how the mountain bike ride had grown when I first rejoined two weeks earlier, and Tom excitedly asked me to guess how many had participated in the cross race. Given his tone, I guessed high: fifty. I was actually low. Six...