Comments on: Bike to work week http://meetzorp.com/2008/05/07/bike-to-work-week/ "If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" - Florence King Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:51:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Gwen http://meetzorp.com/2008/05/07/bike-to-work-week/#comment-1025 Gwen Tue, 13 May 2008 15:59:03 +0000 http://meetzorp.wordpress.com/?p=868#comment-1025 I'm in the same boat - or maybe, on the same bike. I don't have a driver's license at all, and I love biking. It's always been my preferred mode of getting around, for lots of different reasons. I lived in Holland for a couple years, where I felt more liberated - in short, more LIKE AN ADULT - than ever before. NOT like a second-class citizen. It was hard to get back on a bike when I returned to the US, because cycling here is so <del>sucky</del> different. I still ride like I'm entitled to make a (legal and properly-signalled) left turn. And it's strange to be in a place where cycling itself is considered strange, or novel, or somehow 'cute'. I’m in the same boat - or maybe, on the same bike.

I don’t have a driver’s license at all, and I love biking. It’s always been my preferred mode of getting around, for lots of different reasons.

I lived in Holland for a couple years, where I felt more liberated - in short, more LIKE AN ADULT - than ever before. NOT like a second-class citizen.

It was hard to get back on a bike when I returned to the US, because cycling here is so sucky different. I still ride like I’m entitled to make a (legal and properly-signalled) left turn. And it’s strange to be in a place where cycling itself is considered strange, or novel, or somehow ‘cute’.

]]> By: wipeout http://meetzorp.com/2008/05/07/bike-to-work-week/#comment-1016 wipeout Thu, 08 May 2008 11:58:30 +0000 http://meetzorp.wordpress.com/?p=868#comment-1016 Oh, right - Bike to Work Week. We have that here too, I think, though I never pay attention to when it is. I sometimes wonder if anyone other than people who always bike to work take part. I feel similar to you - *every* week is bike to work week! (Except for when there's heavy snow and ice, in my case.) I feel like if I cram myself on some transit, that time belongs to work, but if I bike, that time belongs to me. It reclaims some of my day for myself. After living here for ten years, I have noticed that more people bike to work in general now than they did when I first moved here. It makes me happy to see all sorts of people, in all sorts of dress, on all sorts of bicycles. Oh, right - Bike to Work Week. We have that here too, I think, though I never pay attention to when it is. I sometimes wonder if anyone other than people who always bike to work take part. I feel similar to you - *every* week is bike to work week! (Except for when there’s heavy snow and ice, in my case.)

I feel like if I cram myself on some transit, that time belongs to work, but if I bike, that time belongs to me. It reclaims some of my day for myself.

After living here for ten years, I have noticed that more people bike to work in general now than they did when I first moved here. It makes me happy to see all sorts of people, in all sorts of dress, on all sorts of bicycles.

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