[NON BLOG] On having a bike again
May. 12th, 2011 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI am pedally mobile once again.
This makes me incredibly happy. After an idiot driver did a U-turn that took her car over the sidewalk and into my front wheel, and the chain broke on my bike as I was going down St. Clair West, I didn't have the freedom of the bike. I've found cycling a meditative thing, something that lets me escape myself as I watch for approaching traffic and enjoy the mechanics of my muscles working. It's grand.
My route from the Canadian Tire at Bay and Dundas that was the bike's first home to the bike's new home was rather more winding and approximately diagonal than this Google map shows. It's still close enough.
This makes me incredibly happy. After an idiot driver did a U-turn that took her car over the sidewalk and into my front wheel, and the chain broke on my bike as I was going down St. Clair West, I didn't have the freedom of the bike. I've found cycling a meditative thing, something that lets me escape myself as I watch for approaching traffic and enjoy the mechanics of my muscles working. It's grand.
My route from the Canadian Tire at Bay and Dundas that was the bike's first home to the bike's new home was rather more winding and approximately diagonal than this Google map shows. It's still close enough.
