So, over one Thanksgiving week in the capital, he tried a bike ride.
“I had an old 10-speed Schwinn that was
short sleeve cycling jerseys probably 40 years old,” he says. His first ride was five miles roundtrip, and he told his wife she might have to come to pick him up.
Portantino made it home from that first ride under his own power. Sacramento’s flat terrain allowed him to build his bike legs without pain.
During his years in the Assembly and Senate, road bike jerseys Portantino had always left his Sacramento residence and turned right to
road bike jerseys head toward downtown. “I never made a left for six years,” he says. Once he got on a bike, he turned left and discovered the bike trail along the Sacramento River.