Thanks to RPUS for finding this article. It's a little heavy on the biking-is-dangerous thing, but I've never really biked in LA (only Redondo Beach), so maybe it is that dangerous.
A list of attributes of bicycling in Los Angeles begins with the self-evident: economy, exercise, efficiency and, if you regard congestion as a wrongheaded way to live, even rightness.
Howe represents a school of thinking that holds there is more to it still. Bicycling is an expression of curiosity, Howe said: "the need to scrutinize and question the world around us."
Los Angeles on a bicycle is both a more intimate and a vaster place. Because the rider is exposed, and vulnerable, it is a more engaging landscape.
"To ride a bike in L.A. is to examine the accepted ways of doing things," she continued. "It's a way of stepping out and seeing things in a different way."
After all, the means of travel define a journey just as surely as its destination.
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