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Tag Archives: bike
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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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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What do birds think of us humans? 30 days of biking, #30
What does a bird think of us? It’s all conjecture, isn’t it? No bird uses Google search, which would then allow its interests to be tracked, thus exposing a pattern of thought, maybe something of its reactions to us. Hard … Continue reading
Posted in #30daysofbiking, bicycle, coffee, Off topic
Tagged #30daysofbiking, bicycle, bicycle helmet, bike, marketing, monetary system, money, Rock Island Greenway
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Playing with gravity from allegro to molto adagio. 30 days of biking, #29
No two ways about it: I’m slow. I’m slow to rise and slow to read. Slow to write, slow to edit, and even slower to delete what doesn’t fit. I’m slow over coffee, and slow in conversation. I’m slow to … Continue reading
Posted in #30daysofbiking, Bianchi, bicycle
Tagged #30daysofbiking, bicycle, bike, cadence, fixed gear
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