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New rider David Ludeke hits the trails on his mountain bike at Luton Park in Rockford. Image: Lindsay McCoy
By Lindsay McCoy
Capital News Service
David Ludeke and his wife bought a Peloton early in the pandemic as a way to stay active. After almost a year of riding the stationary bike, this spring he decided it was time to take his spinning out of the house.
“I figured I’d take the skills from the bike to nowhere and go outside and get on a mountain bike,” said Ludeke, who is from Rockford, Michigan
. “I ran into the issue of ‘there’s no bikes anywhere.’ I even dabbled with the idea of getting a mountain bike last year, but bikes were super back-ordered then as well.”