Different Shoes
This post is not actually a post about shoes.
It’s about perspective.
Think back to the days before you started biking to work. Or maybe you don’t even have to think back at all, maybe you haven’t started. Whether you you drove, walked or took transit, you probably had some notion of cyclists on city streets. Mine was kind of like this:
But I liked biking and missed it. I thought it was for the suburbs and bike paths, and I didn’t leave near either. I never really considered biking in the city until I developed a crush.
So I decided to just try it out a little bit. I didn’t stop driving, but I took a leap and discovered that there was more to biking than my initial stereotype:
I fell in love with it. The musician crush faded, but the biking stuck.
Nobody has to bike. But sometimes it’s good to try something new and put yourself in someone else’s shoes for a bit. A different perspective can make all the difference.
Is that a moontain bike? Sorry…
Love the cartoons.
One thing about bike commuting on the moon, no helmet controversy.
After working on getting several bike paths built and being an astronomer, I especially appreciate the “NIMBY moon creature”. Great work as always! And I love my new gold Bikeface t-shirt which I’ll wear when I’m leading Saturday’s Circle the City Ride to kick off Boston’s Bike Week.
There are special lanes for motorists only. They are called Storrow Drive, Route 93, The Mass Pike, Route 2, etc.
Here in Portland we know all about Nu Shooz!
(And our streets are past the point of no return.)