EL MONTE, Calif. – Twenty-two years ago Dennis Huber, CEO of the $379 million SCE FCU, injured himself while running. As an avid runner Huber missed being able to do road work intensely, but he admits now that his doctor's advice that he spend some time each day on a bicycle while he recuperated changed his life. "I had an old bike in my garage that I hadn't used much so I cleaned it up and started biking around the neighborhood," Huber said. "Then one day when I was out a guy biked up beside me and asked me how I liked riding. I told him the story about why I was doing it and he asked me if I wanted to join him on a three-day bike trip coming up. I thought, why not? And that's where it all began." "It" is the tradition Huber inaugurated of making week-long bike trips, each year, with up to six or seven friends who are all biking enthusiasts, something Huber has done each year for the last 22 years. Trips have included destinations such as a 200-mile loop through South Dakota, taking in sights like Mount Rushmore and the Devil's Tower (last year's trip), or a 300-mile loop through New Mexico (the 2003 trip). Huber says the group generally holds their daily mileage on the bikes to between 50 and 70 miles (a moderate distance for dedicated cyclists) and generally don't try to max out the riding time because the point of trips is to have fun while experiencing the countryside while biking with friends. The trips sometimes include a day somewhere in the middle when the cyclists will take some time off their bikes to experience something different. Last year they toured the badlands in South Dakota by car and the year before they took a day to go whitewater rafting. Huber said he has made the summer trip each year for the last 22 years because there is just nothing that can compare with experiencing a place from the seat of a bicycle and in the company of other friends who also love bikes. "It hasn't seemed like 22 years," Huber said. He said the group always makes its trip in the summertime because summertime is often the only time available, although this can also be among the hardest times of year for riding bikes. It should be a pretty time to go riding this year, Huber said, when the team makes its first week long ride from Alaska's Denali National Park back to Anchorage.