SarahBee
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I started bike commuting in 2007 at the encouragement of a work colleague. I moved to Vancouver, Canada for a job after college and I could barely pay my rent with my low pay at an architecture firm. Trying to find ways to save money, I traded daily bus fare for my mom’s old Peugeot. My mom is a tiny woman and I had no clue about bike sizing, tire pressure, and that seat posts are adjustable. I started bike commuting in the dead of winter because certain people in my life told me that I was a quitter and would never stick with it. If I couldn’t bike in the worst weather, I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it when the weather was nice. Bike commuting was liberating and meant I wasn’t eating rice and beans every night. Fast forward to grad school in Pittsburgh, cycling was my only way to get to and from campus during odd hours when sane people are sleeping. Fast forward to my summer internship in DC in 2010. I was living in Brookland with no car and the met branch trail was just completed and very scary. Fast forward to now- I started biking because I was too poor to afford public transit. Now I have a much better job and I would not be where I am without the grit, commitment, and determination that cycling has forced me to develop. Everywhere I’ve lived has had this great cycling counter-culture and the people are more real and genuine than anyone you’d meet elsewhere
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@Steve O 173654 wrote:
Bonus points requested from Tim the Decanter for the crab socks
[ATTACH=CONFIG]16602[/ATTACH]Virginia May be for lovers, but I caught crabs in Maryland
In the land of Mary does the Phoenixball lay. Twixt 2 H’s where footballers play. If thou needst another clue, search for the pink and purple hue. On a river branch that runs dry, shortcake bakery and Rhode Island Ave are nearby
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You are rock hard, Jeanne!In the land of Mary does the Phoenixball lay. Twixt 2 H’s where footballers play. If thou needst another clue, search for the pink and purple hue. On a river branch that runs dry, shortcake bakery and Rhode Island Ave are nearby
(Sorry my phone died while taking more pics)@Sunyata, I plan to attend. Am trying to recruit fellow Team Ice Cubers. Pretty sure Phillip Bowie is a strong maybe
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