Biking is freedom. It's empowering. It's a love affair.
This simple love affair started as a little girl; freedom was a banana seat on a blue bike with stars. I remember the training wheels and my desire go shed those damn things. All I wanted to do was bike every day. My brother and I would bike around the block for hours, feeling the minor tinges of freedom two wheels afforded. I loved that bike. I loved riding around the neighborhood with my dad. Always trying to race him as he pedaled away on his 10-speed begging to learn how to bike with no hands too. Racing him and one fateful day taking a header over the handlebars as I went too damn fast down the huge hill two blocks from home. A freezee from the neighbor, a huge forehead knot that was a likely concussion and damn if I couldn't wait to hop back on...albeit a little skeptical of those big hills.
Fast forward those two wheels introduced me to whole new communities in Minneapolis, Cleveland, Denver and everywhere I have visited where I can be on two wheels. Six bikes later, each one a little more tailored each one a baby step to something bigger and better. I ride for the community. I ride for the freedom. I ride because I love it. Overall, I just ride.
This simple love affair started as a little girl; freedom was a banana seat on a blue bike with stars. I remember the training wheels and my desire go shed those damn things. All I wanted to do was bike every day. My brother and I would bike around the block for hours, feeling the minor tinges of freedom two wheels afforded. I loved that bike. I loved riding around the neighborhood with my dad. Always trying to race him as he pedaled away on his 10-speed begging to learn how to bike with no hands too. Racing him and one fateful day taking a header over the handlebars as I went too damn fast down the huge hill two blocks from home. A freezee from the neighbor, a huge forehead knot that was a likely concussion and damn if I couldn't wait to hop back on...albeit a little skeptical of those big hills.
Fast forward those two wheels introduced me to whole new communities in Minneapolis, Cleveland, Denver and everywhere I have visited where I can be on two wheels. Six bikes later, each one a little more tailored each one a baby step to something bigger and better. I ride for the community. I ride for the freedom. I ride because I love it. Overall, I just ride.