GRANT MILLER/ COURTESY OF THE BUSH CENTER
BUSH
AT PEACE
of Texas cyclists — in Dallas,
where he and his wife, Laura, have
a house; in Waco, near the ranch
in Crawford; and in Austin — who
are willing to ride with him whenever he wants. The riders receive
an email, usually a day ahead of
time, letting them know where
Bush will be riding. Bush rides for
90 minutes to two hours nonstop,
some of the riders who go with
him said, and then greets members of the public, who have been
showing up in the parking lot with
increasing frequency. Bush and
his fellow cyclists refer to their
riding groups as Peloton One.
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Bush picked up mountain biking in 2004 when his knees started to go south. Prior to that, he
had been an avid runner.
“I wasn’t a mountain biker
when we bought [the ranch].
I was a runner,” Bush said at a
press conference before the start
of the second day of the Warrior
100K. “I know this is going to irritate some running folks, but I ran
myself into premature arthritis.”
Trek CEO John Burke gave Bush
a mountain bike, and one day, one
of his daughters told him to go
outside and take the bike for a ride
because he was “a little irritable.”
“I’ve been biking ever since,”
he said. “Mountain biking is awesome. It gets you outside. It gets
FROM LEFT:
President
Barack
Obama
and former
presidents
George W.
Bush, Bill
Clinton,
George H.W.
Bush and
Jimmy Carter
arrive at the
dedication
ceremony for
the George
W. Bush
Library and
Museum in
Dallas, Texas,
on April 25,
2013.