Old 04-19-12 | 09:01 PM
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This article doesn't surprise me. I always feel that motorists treat bicyclists as second class citizens, pests, nuisances, etc. People are so mainstream that they don't think for themselves. Everything is given from the media and stigmatism. I am going to the best college, get an MBA. When I graduate I am going to make this much, buy a large home, a new shiny car, and be the most popular person on Facebook.

A few years ago I met this Nobel Laureate and he said that he commutes to work by biking and I was thinking to myself why is he doing that? He was a person with huge status. Before he was a CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (#1 in cancer research hospital), he was head of National Institute of Health appointed Bill Clinton, and currently he's head of National Cancer Institute appointed by Obama. I wonder what people thought about him riding his bike to work in NYC with no bike lanes. Right then, I knew biking was special.

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