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Adventures in Bicycling: Riding the American River Parkway

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Bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle! I want to ride my bicycle ... I want to ride my bike! I rode my bicycle past your window last night ...  Queen and The Dollyrots (covering Melanie) run through my head a lot lately. I recently started riding a bike again after a good 20 year absence. It all started with a 2016 family vacation in Lake Tahoe. We rented a home that came with bike use. Although all of the loaner bikes were big for me, and I had very possible just broken my toe, I joined my stepfather and husband for a ride around the private lake community. To my surprise, that old saying rang true. I never forgot how to ride. I peddled and balanced like a pro. I did have tingling and pain in my old lady hands, but otherwise, the ride was pretty easy. I thought I might like to do this bike thing again, but I wasn't going to rush out and buy a bike. The next summer while browsing Craigslist, I came across an ad for free bikes. One of the bikes was a Huffy Cranbrook beach cru