http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/09/10/happy-bike/ Life, Literature, and the Subversive Power of Living Small Thu, 10 May 2012 18:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/09/10/happy-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-3737 LivingSmall » A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood … Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:09:19 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/09/10/happy-bike/#comment-3737 [...] It’s our newest trick — I get on the Happy Bike with Ray on the leash and off we go. He runs alongside with that rocking-horse run that really happy dogs get. The trick though, is that I need to keep reminding him to “be careful” and to “watch out” because he has a tendency to drift out in the way of the front wheel, and that could be disasterous for all of us. [...] [...] It’s our newest trick — I get on the Happy Bike with Ray on the leash and off we go. He runs alongside with that rocking-horse run that really happy dogs get. The trick though, is that I need to keep reminding him to “be careful” and to “watch out” because he has a tendency to drift out in the way of the front wheel, and that could be disasterous for all of us. [...]

]]> http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/09/10/happy-bike/comment-page-1/#comment-3588 Mouse Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:24:08 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/09/10/happy-bike/#comment-3588 I am endlessly entranced by the coincidences that abound in the blog world. Only today I was standing in my shed/outbuilding/funny bit attached to the house, looking at my cheap purple Carrefour mountain bike and wondering if I should actually mount the machine for the first time in 12 months, and considering how much happier I would be with an old-fashioned bike complete with a big whicker basket I am endlessly entranced by the coincidences that abound in the blog world. Only today I was standing in my shed/outbuilding/funny bit attached to the house, looking at my cheap purple Carrefour mountain bike and wondering if I should actually mount the machine for the first time in 12 months, and considering how much happier I would be with an old-fashioned bike complete with a big whicker basket

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