Life is like riding a bicycle; it is all about balance. If you are a student, it would mean finding a balance between studies and play. For working adults, you would wanna find work-life balance. And, for retirees, you exercise and watch your recommended balanced diet for your particular health condition like a hawk (and take your medication stringently).
Regardless of your age, one of the coolest thing that you can do is to ride a bicycle regularly for both commuting and recreation, if not already doing so. Learning to ride a bicycle is a one-off learning process. It was tough at the beginning. Remember the training wheel and your patient or not-so-patient instructor who said that it would be a piece of cake?
Bicycling could well be an overlook mode of transportation. When travelling short distances, the first thought would be to drive, grab a car through an App or take public transport like taxi and train. Why not cycle instead if your urban setting has the infrastructure to support it?
Riding a bicycle is cool in that you are seated like on a chair and travelling while seated. So saddle up and head out to the parks for a joy ride. It would help you exercise your muscles (good preparation for a stronger body to cope with old age to come) and help you get back to Nature with its attendant benefits for a healthy life.
When you have like friends who enjoy biking, it would be a grand avenue for social interaction and help you stay engaged in relationships. You can listen to all kind of stuffs communicated to you and understand them all, but making a connection with another person takes the beef.
So why are you not cycling? There are subtle barriers, I guess. Maybe your immediate environment is not conducive for cycling, the park is just too far away or you don't have the luxury of space (for a mountain bike or racing bike).
No problem. There is a solution for this if you are looking at cycling on un-rugged terrain. Go for a foldable bicycle that rides like a real bike.
The advantages or practicality of a foldable bike is that it is compact enough for you to transport to your parks and for your to be able to store easily at home without it being the centrepiece. You may have to pay good money value for a good one though, but in the long run it will go the distance to make your life that much better with the accumulation of the little betters from each day.
I do not own a bike. The bikes that I ride are typically rented. But, I am dreaming of a Brompton foldable bicycle. More on the Brompton in the next post.
