Video – 7 Commandments for the Wise Cyclist

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By Emlyn Lewis 1

I’m posting this the same day I’m posting a Useless Review about how I hate How-To videos, except actually this one really nails it. Every piece of advice here is, in my experience, spot on, and each is succinctly put.

I don’t know David Deubelbeiss (or how to pronounce his last name), the proprietor of this particular YouTube channel, but a quick scan suggests he’s guy after my own heart. The ability to see a complex thing in simple terms isn’t just clever. It’s like poetry.

Emlyn Lewis

Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).

He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.

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  1. albanybenn says

    Great points, both old and new

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