Timberline Pathways mountain bike

Timberline Pathways mountain bike

Buck's bike, a Timberline Pathways is a 21-speed, and I had it in my van from our outing the previous day, so I got up on October 13, 2013 to see if another T-shirt day was in store. It wasn't.  I put on sweats and took his bike out for a run around my middle town route to measure it and have a leisurely ride. I immediately wished I had light gloves, but halfway through the ride, that was no longer an issue in the lovely sunny, brisk, morning.  Buck has an axe handle stuck along the diagonal bar, presumably for fending off attacking dogs, which, fortunately, I did not encounter. I found it to be a nice riding, roller, but his lowest range of gears did not work.  Therefore I took all rolling hills in the mid-range at the lowest gear.  It was no great problem; reduced the bike to about the level of my Schwinn World in these situations, which are not abundant on my town routes.  Measured the route to be exactly 15.0 miles and I did it in a leisurely 79 minutes.  It was fun--nice bike.