I Love Riding in the City

NAME: Erin Nicole Brown
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY
OCCUPATION F/T: Photo Agency P/T: Bicycle Habitat

What’s your favorite (or the most exotic) city you’ve ridden in, and what was special or memorable?
I really enjoy riding my bicycle around Philadelphia. The Chinatown bus from NYC to Philadelphia is so accessible and affordable. My most memorable moment has to be when I took the 7pm bus down on a Friday night during the summertime in 2001. I tossed my bike underneath the luggage compartments below the bus, then headed to Philadelphia! I rode my bike around that lovely city all weekend. I met up with some of my friends and drank beer, swam in fountains that we shouldn’t have, then rode to the pretzel
factory and stuffed our faces with yummy food. I got to visit some local bike shops in the area and see Tony’s father’s country folk band play at the fire station. That weekend was amazing!
Three years later in Philadelphia, I re-kindled an old flame with my high-school sweetheart at
Re-Load’s Annual April Fools Race.

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NAME: Kent Peterson
LOCATION: Seattle, WA
OCCUPATION: Commute Program Director,
Bicycle Alliance of Washington

Frost and Moonlight
I roll through air that is cold enough to make every sound clear. There is a tick in my right pedal, keys clink in my pocket, my bell rings itself on the rough pavement of the Bellevue Slough. The freeway drones like our entire planet has tinnitus and I wonder if it is good or bad that I can manage to tune all this out almost all the time.

The moon that set behind the city, behind the Olympic mountains in the morning rose again this evening. The warmth of the day is leaving as I leave for home and the light again is getting low. The city streets are familiar, the rhythm of red and green and four-way stops, the tide of traffic, the workday workers working their ways away.

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