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Cycling Quote for the Summer of Rain '09

From Eric Caruncho's piece, The Art of the Bicycle, about Ave Medea, who builds one-of-a-kind bespoke frames out of his home workshop.

If there's one thing that tree-hugging activists and conspicuous-consuming yuppies agree on, it's that bicycles are cool. Granted, the former ride them instead of SUVs to reduce their carbon footprint, while the latter like to drape them on the roof racks oftheir gas-guzzling Fortuners or Explorers as expensive accessories, oblicious to the irony of driving hundreds of kilomters so they can ride their mountain bikes on a stretch of pristine nature trail.

Comments

Anonymous said…
thanks for this, padma. were it not for your blog, would have missed reading it. that frame builder ave maldea apprenticed under was no other than rey ranada. in fact my ride, my beloved was made by rey himself.
-roadrat