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There is a fantastic long article in the June issue of the Walrus by Bill Reynolds called Geared Up: On the road to two wheeled transcendence. One man’s love affair with his bicycle<\/a> (entire article is online). It is great to see this kind of bike writing. Mature, utilitarian, mythic and even tragic. It’s good to see this kind of article in a general interest magazine like The Walrus. As bike writing evolves, and the dominance of the car slowly is undermined by market and environmental forces, we should see a flourishing of this kind of bike writing in the tradition of the more literary automotive related writing that has mythologized the car since they started popping out of Henry Ford’s factory at affordable prices. From Geared Up:<\/p>\n

My friend Jeff used to wonder why I keep riding, why I couldn’t outgrow biking as I settled into marriage, a career, house, family, and five kinds of insurance. The bike is for recreation. You want to go to a grocery store, take the car, he’d say.<\/em><\/p>\n

But not everyone is wedded to the car. Some use it to drive out to the countryside in order to ride. Others are gearheads who fall in love with every latest bike innovation; or eco-freaks who detest cars; or those shredders of mountain terrain, the off-road recreationers; or samurai couriers; or sleek, Lycra-sheathed road racers; or hybrid aficionados; or advocates knocking on city hall doors, protesting the bike’s lowly status in the transportation hierarchy; or those polyamorous swingers of sport, the triathletes. Or simply speed demons: on a bike, you feel the acceleration, not like in cars these days, which are smooth and quiet, and where the difference between 50 and 80 or, on the highway, between 100 and 140, is observed on the dashboard rather than felt in the gut. I’ve often wondered where I fit in. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Photo by jgrantmac<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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