Once again Minnesotans have reached the time of the year where we all go outside. All of us. As much as we possibly can. After all, we only have a short period of time where we can be outside before it gets cold again. Then only the cold weather people go outside.
One of the favorite outside activities of Minnesotans of course is biking. Of all kinds. Road, mountain, sidewalk, snow. You name it and there’s a Minnesotan who does that kind of biking.
Now when I was a kid in rural Minnesota my sister and I had mountain bikes so that we could ride on dirt or gravel. So I never learned how to ride on pathment until I went to college. Of course I had to teach myself a whole new version of riding a bike.
Of course as a small child I had learned to ride on the sidewalk before we moved to the rural area. Which of course we did while I was still too little to ride anything except my sidewalk bike. Six-year-old me did not take being left out of bike riding well and declared that when I was grown I was moving to St. Paul where there were sidewalks to ride my bike on.
I will admit that I was off about which part of the cities I would grow up to move to but I was right about there being sidewalks to ride my bike on. Except now that I am an adult riding a road bike instead of a sidewalk bike my young declaration was not fully needed.
