Bike Schmike.

For some reason, our schedule in Nashville has just been such that we haven't really blogged like we did when we lived in Birmingham. I'm trying to get better at it though. So...here's a fun story.

Lyndsay is training for the "Jack-and-Back," an annual bike ride in Tennessee to raise money for MS, and more importantly-- an opportunity to ride a bike in a big circle. It's 150 miles in a weekend. 75 the first day from Franklin, TN to Lynchburg, TN...and then the next day, 75 miles right back to where they started. Lyndsay is pretty excited about it. In fact, she went to bed early tonight so she can wake up at 5 tomorrow morning at go ride her bike. I'm sure you're wondering, "Scott, how do you figure in to all this? Are you riding too?" Well, I try to be a supportive husband. But for 150 miles...I think I'll just stand on the side of the road and cheer.

Lyndsay got her bike for her birthday this past January. She had a mountain bike in Birmingham but it pretty much fell apart when we were getting ready to graduate from Samford, so when we graduated and moved out, we just left it tied up to a bike rack in front of my dorm. It stayed there until we moved away from Birmingham a year later. It could still be there now.

...so back to the story. Lyndsay decides it's her birthday and she'd like a bike. I see one on Amazon.com at a good price, so I get it for her. She loved to go mountain biking in B'ham, so she'll love it here in Nashville, right? Wrong. She gets it and about a week later signs up for this 150 mile road race.

So now we need a new bike. And for 150 miles...it better be a pretty good one. Initially, I thought that all bikes came from Wal-mart so a "nice bike" was just the expensive bike at Wal-mart. I was wrong. These things can get crazy expensive!

So now we have what I like to call "Bike Fever." It's similar to earlier this year when Lyndsay had "Dog Fever"...except getting a bike won't chew up your furniture and ruin your carpet. Well...I guess it might, if you actually let it in your house. Anyways we've been learning all about road bikes. Good ones, bad ones, and other ones. If anyone has a good tip on getting a good road bike, let us know.