biking and reading

[stevenson]

I've oft wondered that there might be a connection between biking and reading well. .. when I was doing great reading, I remember I was also doing great biking, and being resourceful. Heres the quote I stumbled upon:

“My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.”

-Peter Golkin

[LitNetIsGreat]

I like both too. I've put in a few shifts this holiday biking out to nice places with a book and flask of tea. If there is a connection? I don't know, maybe one does the body and the other does the mind, so they work in harmony. I like the quotation. You would have to add a few cold beers in there too and some bacon for breakfast and then you do have perfection.

Edit: OK, maybe throw in a belly dancer or two, if I was being cheeky.

[kev67]

I cycled to Watership Down on Monday, but sadly I did not see any rabbits. Just as well, the last thing you want is a rabbit to run out of a hedge and into your wheel while freewheeling down hill at 30 mph.

On the way back I stopped at a pub. A notice inside said it was over 900 years old and mentioned in The Domesday Book, yet it was called The Pineapple. I thought how could anyone be so crass as to rename such an historic pub with a trendy name, especially as the sign clearly showed a pine cone. However I see from Wikipedia that pineapple is an old word for pine cone.

[LitNetIsGreat]

It's really bad I didn't know Watership Down was a real place! Good stuff with the pub I would of thought the same thing. Sounds like you had a decent day.

note... Very strange but I'm speaking this through my new phone and not typing! Another glimpse of the future. Weird.

[The Comedian]

note... Very strange but I'm speaking this through my new phone and not typing! Another glimpse of the future. Weird.

Neely, you're a man ahead of his day. :-)

[LitNetIsGreat]

Neely, you're a man ahead of his day. :-)

Yes it is all very strange. Wouldn't have thought such a thing. It makes me speak queen's english very slowly though and you do have to add the occasional capital letter excetra. I'm guessing that it will only get very much better and it can pick up on yorkshire very soon! The future is so much lazier than even today!

Spoken reply. Like my text messages I just speak in to the bloody thing. Whatever next?

[kev67]

It's really bad I didn't know Watership Down was a real place! Good stuff with the pub I would of thought the same thing. Sounds like you had a decent day.

note... Very strange but I'm speaking this through my new phone and not typing! Another glimpse of the future. Weird.


I have a map in the front of my copy. It matches pretty well with the online map. Have to say those rabbits made heavy going of their journey from Sandleford Warren to Watership Down. I could walk it in two or three hours. OTOH it's about 800m from Nuthanger Farm up a really steep hill to the Honeycomb. Dandelion and the dog he led up there must have been knackered.

[Calidore]

note... Very strange but I'm speaking this through my new phone and not typing! Another glimpse of the future. Weird.

It is indeed a strange world when speaking into a phone is some kind of full circle.

[Paulclem]

I bike - to work normally, but then I do cycle into town to various cafes to read my kindle. I could read more if I commuted on the bus, but I do like the balance.

[JBI]

I'm Canadian. There is no way I am riding on an already narrowed street (Because of the snow banks) in the cold and ice to the library. I am sorry, but I will drive.

That being said, tea (particularly Chinese tea with no additives like honey or lemon or sugar) and books go perfectly. Chinese food also goes well with reading, especially the kind that accompanies tea. I recall being younger in Toronto going to various Hong Kong style venues with a book and sitting drinking tea and eating for a few hours. It's a shame people in mainland China are too loud to accommodate such a hobby. Especially with restaurants closing at 2:00 for the afternoon.