I’m fond of saying that the bike is as near to a panacea as humanity has yet discovered, good as a treatment for both individual maladies and societal problems. Here’s a video that reinforces that idea and encourages me to keep pushing the pedals towards a better life.
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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