http://recycleabicycle.org/youthprograms/rideclub
Being a huge bike advocate and enthusiast, seeing all this proliferation of bike advocacy in the city really inspires me. I think bicycles can do a lot to revolutionize our society. It brings people together, it promotes good health, it conserves the environment, and it frees individuals. I think more cities should take the initiative to promote bicycle advocacy. Bike Month NYC should be an example to all big cities.
Wherever I eventually end up, I would like to use my passion for bicycles in a very similar way. It was because of a two week bike trip offered by my youth group that I am so strong in my faith. It was because of the opportunity in that group to lead, that I've come to know the responsibility and necessity in becoming a leader. I want to use the freedom that the bicycle inspires to reach out to the youth just like this group is doing and like my youth group back home did. For, “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” Ernest Hemingway.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiikJn1jGNw
nice...i wish we could get more saranac kids interested in the bike trip now--i think we have only 3 or four completely for-sure riders going as of this moment, and we leave in 5 days! hopefully even with a small group we can influence somebody in the same way you talk about here; that's all we're really hoping for!
Hoorah for bicycles!!! now that summer is almost upon us, I too will be taking advantage of my dear and trusty bicycle. I almost have a longing for a little more New York City, on my bike this time.
Hope all is going well with you Thomas!
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