Why Biker Beans? You could have picked a name that was cool.

It wasn't that random, though many things about my life are quite scattered and the explanation is usually cut short with a change of topic.
In February of 2009, Heather and I were hiking the hills of North Carolina, kind of with a vengeance. We were at war with our physical condition, eating right and plenty of exercise. By that, I mean 4 to 5 miles on the weekdays and 12 to 18 miles on Saturday and Sunday.

I think we both lost 20 to 25 pounds each. I was under 200 the first time in 15 years, cool.
In the state of highly oxygenated blood surging through my brain, we were having energized conversations, ideas and starting to declare an adventure. I'd traveled for 8 years by this time, I was 36 and we wanted to do something that was an exclamation point...maybe two of them.

Well, we were doing a lot of walking and enjoyed it. I thought, what was there to do where you could do a lot of walking and announced (with arms in the air) "Let's hike the Appalachian Trail!" It had an exclamation point in it. Heather, being a little more reserved said, "Why don't we go on that long distance ride on our recumbent tandem we've talked about, so we did this bikerbeans.blogspot.com

Still doesn't explain the name does it. Part of this enormous desire to eat well and exercise well was from eating rice and beans. We ate a lot of it. Sometimes we ate beans and rice just to change it up a little bit. It was good, I enjoyed it. It was even a recipe I could handle. With 3 ingredients, one of them being water, with rice and beans remaining.

What were we doing, biking. What had we eaten a lot of, beans. The Biker Beans were born, and we set feet on our pedals April 14th, following our February announcement.

We're still bikin', just a little faster and engine powered.