I figure I can always fish when I'm 90.
N o souped-up titanium bike is needed.
To perform his best, weekend bicycle racer John J. Stein puts more emphasis on his own physiology than the model or brand of his bike. The assistant professor of neuroscience is interested in the science of the exercise as much as he is interested in racing for competition and a workout. Stein, left, joined his wife and sister in a biking fund-raiser for diabetes in 1994 and hasn't stopped since. He enters distance races, ranging from 40 to 60 miles, and criterium races, which require riders to do laps around city blocks. But Stein, a Providence resident, takes to the suburbs to train, charting routes through towns such as Rehoboth, Smithfield and Lincoln.