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Also, I got a bike this summer. I rode it like a madman all summer and wondered why I hadn't had a good working bike in so long. One reason was that I was doing PCA work and you can't cart a PCA client around on a bike. And then I just got into that habit of driving and didn't think about how much I could be using a bike.

I had a class at the U and wondered exactly how I was going to park there. I thought I ought to take the bus, but bus service in the Cities is not awesome. Oh, wait. I'll just bike. I even did a practice run because I hadn't had my bike for long. I discovered that I could get to campus in less than 20 minutes, which is probably about the same time it would take to drive and less time than the bus.

I commuted every day to class and did some recreational rides, too. I haven't ridden to my job in Brooklyn Park or the training I had in Maple Grove. I don't want to spend 3 hours riding every day, and there's no buses that go to BP in the morning. When I tried to find a bike/bus combo on the metro transit site, they told me to leave Monday afternoon to get to school Tuesday morning.

I started bike shopping with only the vaguest idea of what I wanted, then I figured out with the help of friends that I wanted a single speed. At first, I was skeptical because only insane or intense bikers ride single speeds. Except then I remembered that I had a single speed when I was 8, and I wasn't a particularly intense cyclist back then. There's been only one time, on the hill next to the Walker Art Center open space, that I've had to get off and walk. Otherwise, I work hard on the few hills I do come across, and most of the biking in the Cities can be easy.

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