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If you had asked me two years ago whether I could complete a cross-country bike ride, I would have laughed hysterically, having only ridden a maximum of five miles in ...
She Builds from Jon Chew on Vimeo. This short, lovely film by Jon Chew, in association with Redbeard Bikes, portrays the simple beauty of building up one’s own bicycle. While ...
PEDAL from ultralitefilms on Vimeo. Growing up in a cycling family, it wasn’t hard for Hera Van Willick to hop on a bicycle at eighteen and ride out on her own. ...
Continued from Setting Me Loose As I biked out of the airport, I felt almost giddy. The air was cool, and the road stretched forward in a long, silent curve. It ...
If there was a way I could have cycled across the country and not told a single person, I think I would have been all for it. Telling people things ...
One fated morning in 1974, I rolled out of bed in the tiny apartment that my mother and I shared in Auburn, Maine. She was up early and was outside ...
When I was 21, I worked in a nightclub of ill repute. The windows were painted black, and the doors opened into a dark haze of thumping music and hot ...
Life of Pie from Patagonia on Vimeo. *Warning: Profanity is used in this short film. Pizza. Bikes. Community. Mountain bikers and partners Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller moved to conservative ...
I wiped sticky dust from my forehead with the back of my grubby hand and nibbled the arm of my sunglasses, my cleats tapping across the shiny floor of the ...
It’s the morning of New Year’s Eve, and the exact moment I step out of my tent, I spot a dorsal fin. It rises briefly into the mist from the placid Brickhill ...