In my endless quest for the sublime, the slightly weird, the definitively off-kilter I came across this piece by Petor Georgallou.
I recommend reading the whole thing but if it had ended after the following line in the first paragraph it still would have been brilliant:
“Travel by bike offers the widest selection of strangeness by covering the most ground while also being in the world, with the number of stops limited only by a personal expectation of reaching a destination.”
What’s not to love, right? That answers pretty much the biggest “why” of riding bicycles that I’ve been trying to convey for the last eight or so years of this website’s existence.