Saturday, August 2, 2008

Catching On

From today's Washington Post:

What's happening is, the American conception of the bicycle-as-toy and the bicycle-as-sports-equipment is being infiltrated by the European notion of the bicycle-as-transportation and the Asian notion of the bicycle-as-cargo-hauler. The idea has dawned that, guess what, contrary to the biker dogma of the 1970s and 1980s, you don't have to break your back with drop-down handlebars and obsess over ever-lighter space-age frames.


Read the whole article.

2 comments:

Colin said...

Finally--I just hope it's true.

I like your blog!

Club Prez!dent!st said...

I second that hope.