Pedal to the Mettle

I took a long bike ride yesterday. Here are the highlights. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED AND YES, ANIMATED (!) BY PETER MOORE

IN THE SUMMERTIME I morph into a kind of centaur on wheels.

Not that it’s easy to bicycle where I live.

The terrain in Colorado’s Front Range is predictable: Head north, south, or east, and it’s prairie-flat and wildflower-dotted. But if you go west, young man, you go up.