Your Story; Laurence Sherry
It’s funny, in a sad sort of way, how far too often it takes a threat to our mortality before we ever really begin to live life to the fullest, before we are willing to see its beauty despite–and because …
Category: Your Story
Your Story: To Die Happy is to Live Well
“Oh, Alex, I do worry” “Aren’t you afraid of getting killed?” “Is that safe?” “Why don’t you take up butterfly collecting?” “What’s a bicycle?” As a cyclist, I’ve heard all sorts of appeals to my sanity masked as concern for …
Your Story: America Recycled
The bicycle is a remarkable vehicle of, and for change. While the benefits to the individual are well known, the bicycle is also a remarkable devise for social change. It facilitated meetings between women during the early days of the …
On The Trail, In The Now
On the quest for self-improvement, more miles and enlightenment on the bike, I recently came across the following passage in Eckhart Tolle’s, The Power of Now(New World Library, 1999). It eloquently describes the deeply spiritual appeal of mountain-biking; when you …
The Ride is the Reward
Friday evening it came to an end; the mountain-bike road trip finished in Terlingua, Texas with a party celebrating the change of the Mayan calendar and the winter solstice. And while the past few weeks may not represent an epoch …