Mysterious disappearance of Mike “I Love My Bike” Kurpinski solved.
Okay, Mike “I Love My Bike” Kurpinski has been conspicuously absent from all the rides this year, has rarely responded to the ride invitations and has not joined in the banter back and forth through Email about not riding, ride reports, etc... To be honest, I was getting worried that he had been in a bike accident and was in the hospital, or was just plain in the hospital with medical problems because he is even older than I am, and that he just couldn’t communicate with us!!! So, I decided to try to reach him on his cell phone Friday August 1st to invite him to the “Lojack Gravel Road Ride” on Saturday August 2nd but all I got was his voice mail so I left him a message.
When I got home from the “Lojack Gravel Road Ride” I had a voice mail from Mike, so “he---is---alive!!!”
Turns out Mike has been at his cottage in Indiana since July 3rd, with no Internet connection, limited cell phone connectivity, and even less of an inclination to be in touch with the outside world now that he is living large in his early retirement from EDS!!! He just happened to be back in town for a wedding and to vote in the primary elections and then he was heading back down to his cottage until sometime in September, even if his wife has to start back teaching in late August!!! Talk about enjoying life, and to have a wife willing to work full time to support his lavish retirement, what a lady, and boy is he lucky!!!
Mike bought a commuter bike to run errands and go shopping with but he has been doing gravel road rides with his daughter on his CANNONDALE mountain bike. That’s right; he is a fellow Cannondale rider, “why ride the rest when you can ride the best?” He also said that he has been riding a LOT of miles and doing LONG rides. So, let me translate for you. He has been riding with his daughter, A LOT, and riding on his own for LONG rides to boot, preparing for the Iceman race in November. I know Mike; I wouldn’t put it past him to be riding with an exercise vest with 40 pounds of weights as well!!!
For the rest of you actual mountain bike riders, be afraid, be very afraid when Mike “I Love My Bike” Kurpinski gets back here and starts riding with us again!!
Sincerely,
Dan “Krash” Kiplinger
“Embedded” in-the-field Correspondent and Editor-in-chief for the “Official Mountain Bike Ride Report”.
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