i like to think i'm very passionate about bikes. I have not had erotic experiences with bicycles. Bicycles just make be really happy. For me it's the efficiency, as you say, ok, so on a bicycle, a human m moves four times faster than he or she than they do on foot, while expending five times less energy. So hard, lavim is hard to find machine that's more efficient, right? Land, it just feels so good. It feels so damned good to be on a bike. The simplicity of it is just sort of gorgeous. Then there's the visceral joy. That amazing experience of, you know, feeling the breeze passing over you
Jody Rosen is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a bike nut who has just published a rousing (and sometimes arousing) book called “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” Today, he takes us on a rollicking ride through the two-wheeled revolution, revealing the surprising ways bicycles have shaped the world in which we live.
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