The Best Gift: An Old Bike

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Better than new. Pass along cherished gear, surprise a loved one with the gift of repair and keep a good story going. Shanon Castle received a rad bike as a gift from her parents when she was 13, but it wasn’t life changing at the time, it was just a bike she remembers riding around sometimes. Fast forward 10 years. Shanon was a concert dancer, searching for a change. Something about riding her bike to work sounded dreamy. Since she couldn’t afford a bike, she asked her parents if they still had her old one. Give used. Give back. Give knowledge. Get inspired at Patagonia.

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0:00.0	For over 45 years, Patagonia has given a damn about the clothes they make and their impact on the
0:05.4	environment. Join them this holiday season as you consider what you give. Pass along cherish gear
0:11.0	that you no longer use. Try something new with a friend. Repair that favorite jacket or donate
0:16.5	to a good cause. Get inspired with more ideas at Patagonia.com slash stories and cheers to the joy
0:24.3	of giving on a living planet. Alright, it's our family's favorite time of year when we take our
0:33.3	ancient travel trailer that's older than us up to the mountains. We ski all day, we spend the
0:37.8	evening sledding and making food and spending time and it just it feels like this wonderful thing for
0:42.2	us. So a couple weeks ago, back in I hatched a plan. We would leave the trailer up at the mountain.
0:49.3	At the end of the weekend, I would take the kids. We'd hitch home with a friend. Back of Wood's
0:53.7	day and ski with some friends and have like adult time and then we'd swap except when we made
0:59.8	that work was totally quiet and then now it's all insane and she needed to bring her computer. She had
1:04.8	a great time but right at the end she had home and she realized she'd gotten her computer up there
1:10.8	two hours away and we were all flustered. We're like jumping kids appointments deadlines. She needs
1:16.0	a computer. I'm trying to meet friends. The computer is at the mountain. After school, child care
1:20.6	fell through. Someone's going to have to pick them up. Like it was like how are we going to do that
1:25.5	and Jelzen needs a computer. And just like that, the answer to it all was obvious.
1:39.2	The next morning, the boys woke up to find their mom waiting for them on the couch.
1:43.0	Do you want to go to school or spend the day skiing with mom? She asked. They looked at her like
1:50.6	it was a trick question and then they realized it wasn't and that's when the cheering started.
1:56.8	I think about moments like this a lot about how small choices or serenity this is a gig instead of
2:02.2	the zag can lead us to unexpected places. A crummy day becomes a day where two little boys spend
2:08.3	a morning catching snowflakes on their tongues while riding lifts with their hero mom.
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