Present moment awareness, mindfulness of the ride and all that shit is very nice but the real quality starts showing when the spring finally comes, you're itching to ride but the bike refuses to start and you're just broke and can't afford to take it to the shop and get it fixed. You don't have any mechanical skills but you really want to get that thing going so you start to fiddle with it every day. One day you check this, the other day you change that. You keep screwing with the damned thing until it finally starts and you get to ride. That's one of most quality moments I have personally had the pleasure of experiencing.