Lucky #7

Went to Nearly New tonight to purchase my 7th Chicago bike. There's such an exciting and reassuring freedom about riding a bike. After this sedentary winter its nice to get on a bike and feel mobile again. It always shocks me when people in Chicago don't have a bike. The feeling is incomparable and the convenience cannot be understated. I'm looking forward to avoiding the 36 and the 22.

"I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian." -Dave Eggers

"On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town." -David Byrne

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." -Christopher Morley