A beautiful morning to ride my St Bob, and I’m heading South on Old Hickory towards The Loveless to meet up with friends for some biscuits and a ride down the Trace, there’s almost no traffic this morning but I’m approaching the light at HWY70, it’s red. Usually I hate red lights but as I pull up next to a Norton that is already sitting there, I notice it’s being ridden by this little wrinkly old lady…I’m betting she didn’t top 5 foot and was at least 70+. I smile, thinking, “How awesome, I wanna be HER someday!” Then she turns and smiles back, the biggest smile I’ve ever seen and says, “When I grow up, I’m going to get me a big girl bike too!”

I laughed so hard I almost dropped my bike…and more than a year later thinking about that wonderful lady makes me smile and hope that when I grow up, I’m just like her!