The day after Tour de Fat visited Seattle to celebrate the bicycle as a sustainable form of transportation, a Washington DC architect is interviewed by the Post:
“Somewhere along the line, we made biking a hobby and a sport instead of a way to get around,” says Alexandra Dickson, an architect who commutes from Southwest Washington to her downtown office on a blue Breezer Villager that she calls Babe, after Babe the Blue Ox. “I'd like to see it get back to being a way of getting around.”
The story, “Cycling Back Around: Four wheels good, two wheels better,” goes on to explain that the idea of a bicycle as a recreation or sports machine is being replaced by the European idea that a bicycle is for transportation, and at times with the Asian idea that it's a cargo hauler.
Many of these bikes are the all-new “commuters” sold in bike shops, while others are simply old, fat-tired single or three-speeds purchased off of Craigslist.
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