I'm terribly keen on everyone using bicycles as much as possible, especially older folks (and for the record, I'm 67). We need the exercise, and we need a kind of exercise that runs the gamut from comfortable and easy on the body, to a bit more of a workout for losing the flab that seems as determined to accrete on us as barnacles do on the hull of a boat, to the mercifully rare moments when we are frightened into a heightened state of consciousness even as we ride our way out of a seat on the next celestial express. Too many of us who are capable of being excellent veloists (1), instead settle for being another four-limbed pudding-pop strapped into an elaborate machine that will soon become a kind of self-controlled floaty chair (2). I urge as many of you as possible to take up cycling, and to that end I'm going to post some information on the subject to help you get started.
1 A snazzy French synonym for bicyclists.
2 A kind of personal transportation in the brilliant movie Wall-E. Highly recommended.
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