"It just feels so bad to me that the cost benefit dilemma. It's really, it's sort of like, i've arrived at the answer in advance," he says. "I don't know if that's because i'm more fearful, because i'm older and i have, you know, children, and maybe i fear death more."
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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