This little video is a meditation on what the bike does for us, and there are a few things I really like about it. First of all, it’s brief. The filmmaker isn’t packing shots in, just to make it longer. The narration is well-paced and economical. And everything the dude says is right, from the concern that the bike is almost too important, to all the ways it improves our lives and gives us, quite literally, a vehicle for positive change.

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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