Sell Car, Get Bike
Since the Dreamweaver Team is moving from Redwood City to the San Francisco office, Mer and I have decided that we only need one car. So, I sold the Subaru and bought a Specialized.
I compile resources for the San Francisco bicycle commuter:
Along with this shift from gas-power to human-power, my brain is rearranging itself. I feel lightness, happiness, freedom.
I sold the car on Monday, and all week I've been researching bikes. Dalbir and I went around the corner from the city office on Wednesday and found this one. Yesterday, I brought it home.
This will be a huge transition for me - I can already feel my mind adapting. From four wheels to two, from foot brake to hand brakes, from engine to lungs and legs, the brain changes.
My first job was delivering newspaper on my dirt bike at age 10. At 20, I was commuting to class on my mountain bike. Now at 30, I have graduated to cyclocross - a road bike that takes knobbier wheels when neccessary for those trails on Mt. Tam. Looks like it will be a half-hour ride to work, mostly flat except for our hill.
Ride for life.
April 17, 2004
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