Was I Born To Bike?
It’s time to put in words my relation to biking and everything that comes with it. But we’ll have to start from the beginning.
My grandfather was a poor boy raised in a large family, his mother had nothing and his childhood was sparse, to say the least. My grandfather worked hard all of his life and by 1937 he got the opportunity to buy Leksands only bicycle repair shop. He worked and the shop expanded to a full-blown sport store that sold running equipment, clothes, hunting rifles and so on. After a while my father took over the store. But the bicycle repair shop in the basement was always a very important part of the business, they didn’t just repair bikes, but also grinded ice skates, repaired lawn movers and so on. I worked down there for a few summers as a teenager, sorting bike tires, doing inventory, trying out all the bikes etc.
But it wasn’t until a few years ago I found the joy and the power of biking. To just be able to roll out the bike (okay, I don’t have a bike, I have several) and pedal away is a feeling of freedom I still enjoy everyday, much like the feeling of taking the first ride with the car after I got my driving license. Nowadays I see the car as a hinder in our way of living and I have gotten rid of my car since little more than half a year ago. During these seven months I have lived a car free life and have pedalled my way through life.
So what will this blog be about, it will be an expose of how you can live your life without a car, and use those legs to something good! I will post reviews to my and my kids bikes (we got 15 in the garage, and counting), I will share tips about all things related to biking, and I will show how the bicycle can change the society and our way of living, both political, as social, as economical.
And as a legacy from my grand father who sold bikes, and to my father who also sold bike, maybe I really am, Born To Bike.
Roll on!
