Bike Utah Valley

While attending a meeting a few months ago, I met a reporter.  We started talking about bicycles and such and she asked if I might be interested in doing an interview.  I said sure.  Now, I’ve met many reporters and many have asked me to do interviews and I’ve always said yes.  It has never happened.  This time it did.  You can read her article from the Daily Herald by clicking on the picture.  She did a great job.  It was perhaps the most accurate and most fair article of any I’ve seen on cycling in a long time.  Most of the media is making a big deal out of how many people are now cycling to work or for errands so they can save gas.  That is a great reason to cycle, but it almost sounds depressing.  I hope that people that have started cycling aren’t put off by the sometimes negative view of cycling that the mainstream media portrays.  I hope that they will continue to ride.  It has so many more benefits than just saving gas.  After all, in European cities such as Copenhagen and Amsterdam, it is the people with a good education and a desire to be healthy and active that ride bikes.  They recognize that cycling is good for much more than saving gas.  It is great for your health and so much more.  Don’t let the pundits get you down.  Be elegant.  Be sophisticated.  Ride a bike!