Unbelievable, but here's an interesting twist. Years ago, I ran a very successful bicycle recycling program in my town and just about everybody knew me as "The Bicycle Guy." In those days, I would ride the streets on all kinds of bikes, trikes, prototypes, and what-have-you, and I never even gave a thought to passersby thinking anything other than "Oh, there goes The Bike Guy." Now that the program has been over for some time and the newer folks in my community don't even know it (or I) ever existed, I am suddenly worried that people are looking at me on a bike and thinking NEGATIVE thoughts rather than positive ones. The truth is, the average person can only hold a thought as long as it takes for the next text message to pop up anyway, so this is probably mostly in my head. Perhaps we all need to just screw 'em all and keep enjoying the wind in our faces...