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The Bicycle as Freedom and Flight

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

How to Learn to Ride a Bike

Once you learn to ride a bike famously, you never forget, right? I mean, if you had some horrible, you know, brain trauma, that might be, that memory might be shaken out of, out of your brain. But the bicycle is one of these examples of a kind of memory that, or a kind of skill that you don't need recourse to conscious thought. It's not pedaling per se. In fact, what you're doing when you ride a bike is all the time, you're totally unconsciously making tiny little minor adjustments in order to keep the thing up. So yeah, it's a skill that would seem to be something like a stunt in a way it

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