The Huffington Post
by Jon Ward
May 30, 2013

George W. Bush had been riding his mountain bike for almost four hours, and he was out of gas.

I was 12 riders behind the former president as we cycled, single file, along a winding trail cut through Bush's 1,500-acre ranch. We had been riding almost nonstop, in 90-degree heat, for 30 miles, over terrain that was at times technical, challenging and potentially hazardous. Rocky sections delivered a pounding to both bike and rider. Roots threatened to upend us. At one point, a narrow path along a ridge line dropped off steeply to the right, 50 to 75 feet to the gorge below. Bush had called the section "hairy."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30...html?1369945281

I disagreed with many of his policies, strongly even, but he was always a class act and a decent human being.

He should have taken them riding on horseback.

Oh, I forgot, he's afraid of horses.