better cadence / and fallen plums / and fallen apples / for our rear packs / and a momentary snack
Read MoreThe implicit messages to women in many of these posters were revolutionary for fin-de-siècle society.
Read MoreFlags along the route were not placed there to dissuade us, or turn us back. We see that the wind really is against us, the rain truly horizontal on cheeks, and we are not totally wimps, but it may still take us a while to arrive.
Read MoreThe water within you seeks communion with the water outside you. And that water will tell you everything.
Read MoreIt's precisely because the bicycle creates rather than eliminates the need for physical labor that it's so gallant. When we ride bicycles, we reconnect with ourselves and the world.
Read MoreAlong the top of the levee/ clad in sleek frogman outfits/ a group of young bikers/ skulls down for optimum aerodynamics
Read MoreA thoroughly gorgeous book...a testament to what extremes others have used the bicycle, and the distances they've gone, to get where they are going—and fast.
Read MoreThe singular beauty of the bicycle is that it does provide for your everyday personal transportation, even as it nudges your mind toward a liberating new perspective.
Read MoreThe whole experience of reading Molloy is like riding in circles and may make you carefully reconsider how you act and talk and live when your bicycle is present.
Read MoreA long history of bicycle evolution correlates to an interesting, yet dense and seemingly infinite list of tools to go along with it.
Read MoreOne of the many wonders of The Third Policeman is how it obscurely exemplifies the heights to which the bicycle is capable of being elevated and personified, if not also totally deified.
Read MoreToday it feels like the whole world yields to me and I make it all the way to work without touching my feet to the ground.
Read MoreBeautiful glimpses of the bicycle so heartfelt and wonderful we wish we could stamp them on our souls.
Read MoreI’m relying on you to pack me a path/ While quietly filtering your fumes/ through my lungs
Read MoreThe corn moons and harvest moons are behind you now and cold awaits around every corner.
Read MoreIn The Ice Storm, Wendy’s solitary bike ride is the only moment of ease or grace that appears to occur anywhere in town.
Read MoreBoneshaker's handy safety tips for biking comfortably in pairs.
Read More“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.” ~ Étienne de La Boétie, 1553
Read MoreBicycling is at its very core an alone journey, and when you undertake it, it will be because you and no one else decided to do so.
Read MoreWe were on bicycles in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere with no one to blame but ourselves.
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