Friday, October 2, 2015

The Bow Tie Ride, the Bike that Runs Like a Deere, and...Donald Trump on a bicycle?



We're back in bikeville. After our stay in the Netherlands we badly missed the biking life. Maine is more or less a bike-free zone. Oh, there are dedicated bikers in the Pine Tree State, and some great routes, but life is not organized spatially to make bikes viable, even in urban centers. Cambridge, Mass., where we're spending the year, is a different story. It's probably halfway between Maine and Holland on the continuum of bikeability. We're on our bikes every day. Sometimes it is hard not to feel that biking is the answer to almost everything: fitness, air quality, human interaction, community building, sprawl. Are bikes the best response to The Way We Live Now? Read Basha Burwell's post on The Oog about a wonderful biking event in our fair city last weekend.
I guess you'll never see Donald Trump biking. If you google Donald Trump + bike, this is what comes up. The Trump Tower of choppers.
I can imagine Hilary biking, if she thought she had the time--but she'd probably never believe she had the time.
See below. Can you believe that John Deere once sold bicycles? From their website:
" In 1894 Deere responded to the popularity of bicycles by offering three models – the Deere Leader, the Deere Roadster, and the Moline Special. The bicycle fad fizzled in a
few years. In the 1970s, the company returned briefly to the bicycle business..."




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