Why Do You Love Your Bike?
Why do you love your bike? Is it the freedom to go where you want when you want? the ability to stay active and live a healthy lifestyle? or, is it the adrenalin of flying overhead with your friends cheering?
We all love cycling for different reasons and here at Norco, we want to hear why you love your bike. Some reasons are simple while others are long-winded; no matter what the reason long or short, we still want to know.
Please, share your stories, adventures, philosophies, feelings or whatever and hey, you might even get something out of it. . . .
Go ahead and email why You Love Your Bike to ilovemybike@norco.com.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 PM
OMG. My son, Spencer LOVES his bike(s). We bought him his first ‘serious’ mountain bike, a NORCO scrambler, when he was 10 years old. Little did I know at that time that his love for biking would grow into a slight addiction. He has had well over 20 bikes in the last 9 years (he turns 19 this fall) and owns over 4 personally right now.
It IS an addicition and to support his ‘habit’ he has been working at our local bike shop, “JACK’S CYCLE” (free plug!) He rides rain or shine, snow or sleet and even in the dark with the help of some serious helmut lights. His love life has been hampered by the fact that his bike and biking usually comes first, although he has an understanding girlfriend right now who also has a road bike. His moto is “love me, love my bike”.
I don’t watch the videos of the carnage or road gaps gone wrong. I look away when he shows me the “taco’d” brand new rims, and I smile when he spends his lunch hour running up to local moutain for a ‘quick ride’.
He has the whole family involved now (other wise why would I be on the Norco website??)our vehicles must be able to haul bikes, our weekends are spent at Whistler, Sunpeaks, or where -ever we can get to….and it all started with a shiny new SCRAMBLER- Thanks Norco!
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Every time I go for a ride on my LT i feel like I’m going on my very first date.
September 6th, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I love my bike because it is so amazing to rip up Whistler mountain with my husband and two boys and we all come down the trail with grins from ear to ear wanting more. All of my boys are much better that I am but my Norco 6 is the best ride ever and maybe one day I will catch up to them.
September 19th, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I mostly love my bike because it gives me freedom to commute to work in London, Ontario. Most everyone else drives to work, and I love driving past the line ups of parking garages and traffic lights to get in and out of work. I dread the days when I do have to drive to work, it just is not as enjoyable and takes the same amount of time, even in the dead of winter.
I fell in love with Norco after testing many other bikes. My first Norco was a 2006 Monterey. It was a way more solid yet comfortable ride than a similarly equipped four letter word bike brand that was also way more expensive. I was almost sold on the other bike until I tried the Monterey. I have since converted my wife, she tried one and was shocked at the difference in feel of the Olympia compared to her previous Sports store bike. We now are a Norco family of 4 and suggest to all our friends and family to go to First Cycleworks to buy your bikes.
October 20th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Wow, Why I love my bike? Or why i love my bikes plural. My single speed 29′er Se Racing Stout because its just so brutal. Fully rigid and single speed, not because its cool, but because I truly love the simplicity and pain. Its a huge bike and when i’m tearing through tight single track on those huge wheels at 25psi, I feel unstoppable. My fixed Redline 925 I love because the bike feels alive and free. I feel at one with it no matter what I want to do. Its my daily beater/commuter but it feels like more than a bike, its an extension of me.
April 25th, 2010 at 4:55 AM
I’d love to love my bike but ….
I’m not prepared to pay 20% more to a Canadian company, for the privilege of buying in Canada. Worse, in Ontario I could get sales tax exemption till end of June if under $1,000.
Argh!