One of my favorite quotes on cycling comes from one of my favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway: 

“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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

I think about this when I ride in the Palouse or briefly lose myself while barreling down from 29th and High Drive because I'm looking to the northwest at those distant green contours shaped by the Spokane River. Also, if you ride up a hill, you've certainly earned the right to enjoy the coast down. 

Hemingway loved bikes and so did a lot of other great writers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Ray Bradbury.)

Check this photo series which features modern figures like Jeffrey Eugenides to Leo "war, what is it good for?" Tolstoy. 

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