Toymaker wrote on 10/26/08 at 06:35:06:...and I was beginning to tolerate the cage....durn it.
That is not good, not good at all. I gave up riding when I took up the responsibilty for small children, got back in the saddle a bit over four years ago.
You know the start of "The Wizard of Oz", where Dorothy steps from the black/white world of Kansas into the Technicolor of Oz -- yeah, that is what it is like. You start to tolerate the cage, sell the bike, years later get back in the saddle and kick yourself for years of dreary cage life when you could have been riding instead.
And you can't take the time back.