Service is like riding a bicycle

January 30, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes Whirling spokes. Beard blowing in the wind. His grease stained hands gipping the handlebars. The click of gears shifting methodically. Rolling slowly to a stop, and dismounting. Meet Chris Manor, one of the founders of the Provo Bicycle Collective.   Opened in November 2011, the Provo Bicycle Collective bills itself as a one-of-a-kind. “It could […]

Play bike polo in Provo

September 29, 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute Exercise is hard.   But if you’re looking for a new way to burn some calories while decreasing your carbon footprint and knitting the social fabric of Provo, the answer is easy. Bike polo.   Provo has its very own bike polo group, about 40 members strong and almost a decade old. They play every […]

The lane less traveled

December 8, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes These days when someone encourages you to give up driving in favor of riding a bicycle, they usually bathe their argument in rhetoric about breaking dependence on foreign oil and stopping global climate change. Worthy arguments. Unfortunately, people are rarely motivated by moralistic calls to action. Plus, your individual choice not to drive a car […]