I Love Riding in the City
NAME: Lorena Cupcake
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
OCCUPATION: Bank Teller
What was your favorite city to ride in, and why?
Man, I’ve been to Portland. I enjoyed drinking my pour-over flannel drip single-origin fair trade coffee, eating my ethically sourced naan sandwich delivered by bakfiets, and getting tattooed by a surly vegan. But I really didn’t see the claim that it’s some sort of Two Wheeled Wonderland never to be approached in glory by any other city backed up.
Chi-Town will always be number one in my heart. There’s always an event going down; cyclocross, group bar rides, Messenger Prom, Sadie Hawkins Style Ride, and more alleycats than I could name.
Why do you love riding in the city?
I love checking out guys from behind when they pass me on Milwaukee Ave. Riding home from bars when they kick us out at five in the morning. Having people talk to me in a way they never would if I was in a car; staggering bros trying to high-five me in Wrigleyville, little kids learning how to ride on the sidewalk waving at me, look-ma-no-hands hipsters openly envying my spoke lights. A total stranger once yelled “Hi, Little Miss Rainbows! Thanks for biking!” at me, which made up for every time anyone’s ever screamed “Get a car!”
Poetry anyone?
Chaingrease and cocktails, the city I live in, bourbon and tacos and buck Pabst Blue Ribbon, tall skinny hipster boy riding his bike, these are a few of the things that I like...
Photo by Martha Williams, bikefancy.blogspot.com
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