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What’s your line?
Ride around the block and you soon find yourself retracing your journey. Not exactly, of course: a single-track vehicle cannot help but make two tracks in the snow, the track of the rear tire crossing and recrossing the track of … Continue reading
This essay has way too many exclamation points. Go ride your bike!
People on television put a lot of effort into selling prescription drugs—and their side effects. Go ride your bike! In the United States, some believe there are two sides to any issue. Others disagree. Go ride your bike! Serious people … Continue reading
Posted in bicycle, Read and roll
Tagged bicycle, bicycle shop, bike, H.G. Wells, marketing, Reasons to ride
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Uses of the past
Nostalgia is nonsense, the past rearranged to suit a fantasy of the way things were. Nostalgia is discarded farm implements left in the weather to rust, solidify, and decay in the service of decoration. Memory, on the other hand, when … Continue reading
Posted in History, Off topic, Other bicycles
Tagged cottered crank, Fiction, Holdsworth, memory
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Reading trees along the way
Trees along the way are signs that everything will be all right, even though you know everything will not be all right because everything is everything that is and isn’t right. But as the trees and miles multiply, the signs … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Off topic, Read and roll, Report from the road
Tagged bicycle, bike, Georgetown, Horsey Hundred, Kentucky, present tense, trees, wayfinding
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