“Riding a bike allows a person to pack more life into a day.  The time spent driving to the store, to work, caught in traffic, attention vaguely drifting from the road ahead to the radio and back, is so nondescript, so forgettable, it is lost forever.  On the bike, it is vastly different.  This is actual living.  Blood and oxygen pumping, muscles straining.  There is a sense of being a true part of the world, a participant in one’s own life, rather than simply watching it pass by on a big screen.”

Robert Hurst, The Art of Urban Cycling