ALL TRAILS LEAD TO ICE CREAM

  When I first began cycling it was strictly mountain biking (and limited to the very few trails that I knew).  It took a while for me to buy a road bike.  What I found was that, even though my first love was mountain biking, I ended up putting thousands more miles on my road bike.  I guess because it was so much more convenient and a way to accumulate miles...which in turn made me a better mountain biker.  I'm going to be honest, though.  I never truly loved road riding...not like the love I have for mountain biking.  Personally, I think it is significantly more dangerous than mountain biking.  Sure, there are obstacles in your way on the trails, but the only moving thing you really have to worry about is yourself.  Not the case on the road...and, as anyone who has ever seriously done any road riding knows, it is shockingly scary just how many drivers are paying attention to everything...except the road.  Yet I pedaled on, because I lov...