"Be Your Own Best Ride" (Excerpt)

“It’s a simple thing to make a bicycle into a person, but much more difficult to make the average person a bicycle. She must move with a steely efficiency, letting her rigidity be her strength, converting pressures that weigh upon her (that feeling of a heavy tread descending in a swift, tantrumous kick) to a gliding forward motion. She should not be excessively chattery.”