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I love my bike.

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2 Mar, 2014

Lately I have been dependent on my bike for all my transportation needs. After weeks of riding in rain, shopping with a backpack in a storm-trooper outfit, arriving at meetings with realtors and lawyers drenched in sweat, and taking five minutes every time I get on and off the bike, I finally drove a car for the first time this past weekend.

It was awful.

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