Bombing down a mountain on a totally inappropriate bike taught me this

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It was a long and uninteresting series of events that led me to ride my daughter’s Breezer Downtown EX down the side of a mountain, but here’s the important part: It was fun. An outing during a family camping trip that went a little bit differently than expected found us at the head of a …

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Are our irrational consumer tastes holding us back from more bike-friendly lives?

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Several years ago, Zak Pashak was in the market for a new bike. Not an expensive carbon-fibre race machine, or a $10,000 status symbol. He just wanted a simple, practical bike that wouldn’t require a lot of maintenance, time or money. But he was quickly turned off by the athletic focus of the bike shops …

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