Some bike-themed Exponent posts, a poll and a video.
(Click on the titles of some of these wonderful, classic posts to enjoy some bike-related reading. When you’re done, get off the computer and go for a bike ride.)
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
National Bike Month
“But a year later after we moved from rural Indiana to the suburban sprawl of Chicago, bicycling became my morning meditation.”
Photo by Jana Remy
Biking In A Skirt
“Modesty was a problem for me during my missionary days. Skirts flap around Marilyn Monroe-style on a bike.”
Don’t Come Cryin’ To Me!
“I have to admit part of me was SAD that the bikes were patiently waiting for them after the movie.”
Tag-Along
“I hesitated, realizing that the child seat rack had been on my bike since 1998, before my oldest could walk. Totally unbidden came a wave of emotions and memories.”
Put In My Place
“In fact, just a few days before he had yelled over his fence that we weren’t allowed to play in the parking lot while my son learned to ride his bike.”
On Hope And ‘Acting Like It’
“Huge trees standing next to stately red brick buildings filtered the light over that stretch of the bike path. It had a downhill grade so I could coast and give myself over to my thoughts. On that path I had two life changing internal conversations with myself, both on the subject of hope.”
My Independence
“About two years ago I bought a bike, and not just any bike–it’s a tricked-out bright red tricycle.”
Preparing For Summer (Mis-) Adventure
“Time was that my hair would wave and flutter in time with the streamers on my bike handles. Time was that mothers would cuddle their babies in cars. Times have changed.”
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