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hey folks

im a student and I live up in oregon in a college town called corvallis. I guess this town is what got me started riding. Its a great layout with tons of bike paths, great forests and lots of roads have bike lanes. I just couldnt justify not riding after moving back here. Also, a trip i took this summer to amsterdam really got me thinking about the evironmental impact that a bike community/ life can have on people. I saw a well structured almost bike utopia, where the bicycle was so engrained, people had equal respect for it as to the car. I tried to keep that feeling coming back to the states.

Well i guess thats it, at least there is a place where people can talk about the best machine ever made, and not in dutch! thats a plus.

Hey welcome to the forums.

Im not sure if you were being rhetorical or not, but i'll say somthing anyway. I belive the key to peace is simple. First it starts from within, caring about your self. Then family. After that you have to look at your community, thats where i belive the bike does the most good, with communial peace. People see you, they wonder what drives you to do that to get around. Maybey if they see enough people they will take some cues and drop in. So, its really never to late to make peace with yourself on a whole, its just to late to MAKE other people see it. People dont like to do things if their told, they have to want it, just like the dutch do. What is in our brains that can flip flop from: this rainy ride is crap, i should get paid to do this, to this is great im feeling my environment, and love this ride?