Today we rode our bikes in the little town of Strawberry, just three miles up the mountainside from Pine.
It seems that every street in both Pine and Strawberry is either uphill or downhill. Yesterday we walked 4.5 miles around Pine for two hours with an elevation gain of over 700 feet. And today in Strawberry, we cycled 22 miles in two hours…and the elevation gain (and loss) was over 1440 feet!
This is why when we bought our cabin in Pine, Arizona, the first thing we got were electric bikes. We love to cycle, but we knew that our old knees wouldn’t hold up on these hilly mountain roads if we used our road bikes.
And boy, were we smart—the hills around here are amazingly steep!
But we sure do have a blast riding our e-bikes all around our little mountain towns…and look what we get to see after we climb to the top of the hill!
We can see for miles and miles. And then we get to dash down the hills with the wind whipping against us and my hair flying on the wind—just like when we were children!
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