I have collected quite a list of injuries through the years and it hasn't ever discouraged me from getting back on my bike. I know it doesn't make a lot of sense to most people why I ride, and I get that question all the time... Why do you ride? Well, there are so many reasons, but I'll give you a quick summary. Bike riding has been and is more than a life style to me. It's a religion. It's the perfect harmony between mental and physical challenge. It's taught me how to follow my visions and dreams and the power I have to make them reality no matter what the odds. It's taught me you only have to have one person to believe in you and that's yourself. It's shown me my virtues and my faults and has given me a world to live free from having to compromise either of them. It's taught me commitment and dedication. It keeps me humble by always offering me another challenge. It's taught me the value of thinking outside the obvious and conventional and dreaming without paradox or past examples. It's taught me if you truly want the successes and pleasures life has to offer, you have to be willing and able to accept all the pain and failures.

What other friend can beat you up, causing 14 operations, put you in an emergency room with 20 minutes to live, an 8 hr. comma, etc. etc., but still not have an ounce of remorse or hostility for knowing and devoting your life to, and on top of that still look forward to hanging out with them every day accept my damn bike! That's why I ride.

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