What I’m Reading:

A cycling life begins in a blaze of glory.

For hours or days or weeks, you still don’t know how to ride a bicycle. You wobble and lurch and wipe out, locked in a pitiful struggle with the pull of gravity and the weight and waywardness of the obstreperous metal machine. Then, suddenly, you are breezing along a road that stretches toward a limitless horizon.

— Jody Rosen / Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle