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Article: Confessions of a cyclist.(bicycling)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1997 The Progressive, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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If you want to know what the wind sounds like to an eagle when it dives at thirty miles per hour, get on a bicycle at the top of a steep country road and wheel to the bottom. And if you'd like to pump your blood into capillaries long closed by supine living, pedal back up.
You can also use a bicycle as a commuter vehicle, easing through the daily crawl and stall of car-addicted and traffic-jammed America. Your bike lane is the fast lane.
"Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish," wrote Iris Murdoch in The Red and the Green. "Only the bicycle remains pure in the heart."
I've been head over wheels in love with my Raleigh three-speed ...
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