Like my fellow PM columnists, there's seldom a waking hour when I don't think, to some degree, about my specialty or how it relates to other aspects of life. Even my secret life is influenced by the basic principals underlying hydronics. So this column is a story of how hydronic heating relates to - of all things - cycling.
By the time I got to college, cycle touring was popular. In 1976, three of my friends and I decided to ride our bikes from upstate New York to Bar Harbor, Maine. We made it in six days, in some cases logging 100+ miles per day.