I’ve been following Blake Hansen for a little while, so I was glad to see this little profile of her from Freehub Magazine. There are a few good messages here, packaged with some fun looking mountain biking, but I think the most important ones are that mountain biking is fun, it goes best with friends, and there are room for a hell of a lot more people in our community than we have now.
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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