I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.
I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?
I love cars, but I love bikes more.
I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.
In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.
I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike - I haven't had a bike in twenty years.