This time last year I was working in a brokerage firm. One of the first things they taught me was the principle of risk and reward. The principle goes like this:
The greater the risk, the greater the opportunity for gain or loss.
Being that I was supposed to work today, but was given a reprieve, I was having a win fall. The question was how would I invest my win fall?
The safe and conservative bet was to hit one of the many local road rides going on today.
Riding with Super Tri Guy Mark, or The FSVS cat 4 squad, or even the Queen B, would have all been safe bets. You'd know what you get, 3 hours on the road, at varied paces, guaranteed return on your investment. Safe like a government backed bond.
Today, however, I wanted to ride my mountain bike. I found I wasn't alone. This however was a much greater risk. I wanted 3 hours on the bike today. I hoped to get it at Fair Hill. The upside of this investment was potentially a great snow ride in some of the sweetest single track around. The potential loss was that a group of folks could find the trails too wet, or too buried in snow to be ridable. Either way would mean, some time on the road on single speeds. Clearly, single speed mountain bikes, where not meant for the road, and this would be seen as a loss of investment, and potential bankruptcy.
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