Riding my bike for transportation, I feel at ease and familiar with the city where I used to resent living just a couple of years ago. Everything seems more personal now, more accessible, more connected to my life. I have a personal map of the city in my head, where every area includes the sensory experience of riding my bike there. I continue to discover new neighborhoods that surprise me, feeling like an explorer every time I need to venture somewhere new. It’s wonderful, and I don’t write about it daily only because it has become so incorporated into my everyday routine as to become mundane.
Lovely Bicycle!: The Morning After: Post-Sport Transport
I know exactly what she’s talking about. Cycling in the city makes the city livable. Without that, I’d be going insane here. (As for the identity crisis of sport v. transport cycling — it’s all cycling and it’s all good.)
