Happiness

Happiness is a bike tire that doesn't go flat.

Happiness is a new battery for the bike's speedometer. Excuse me, the bike's "cyclocomputer."

Happiness is riding 29 miles finishing a 29-mile ride on a day when your legs felt so heavy you almost didn't even leave the house. (Happiness is not getting to the turnaround point of your 29-mile bike ride, where you're going to sit and rest for 20 minutes, and discovering that you left the novel you intended to read -- Nabokov, The real life of Sebastian Knight -- at home.)