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There's a nice set of trails about 30 minutes from work I go to during lunch time

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So it's 30 minutes each way and then the ride on top of it? That's a long-ass lunch. Good thing you're the boss! Is your bike full suspension, front suspension, or hard tail?

I have the opposite preference: the whole prepping of the bike thing and process is too much for me. A friend coerced me into getting full suspension Gary Fisher bike a few years ago and I rode it a fair amount, then last week dusted it off for the first time in two full years. Because to be honest I'm mostly in it for the sweat, so it's way easier to just go to the gym, where my preference lately is to get on a bike with a TV attached to it AND get something to read and turn on the golf channel or something and just go for an hour. Kind of a shame I'm lame like that because Phoenix has a very well known selection of bike trails and there are canals and bike lanes on roads near my place that make it as safe as that sort of thing gets.