Substance: PUBLIC DOMAIN for Indie ARTIST

What is it about bicycling that is so infectious? Is it the battle vs. large corporation? Maybe it’s battling the stereotype that Americans are all fat? Whatever it is, it fills a greater purpose than any drug could give. To know that I’m battling long-run health problems, such as, having a stroke early in life and type-2 diabetes, all I can say is, “Keep giving me the miles and the strength to go further. “ For what it is, I don’t have any medical facts to back any of this up. To be honest, I never even went to graduate school, but for whatever it may be, when I hop on my purple Giant, I’m embraced with this fulfillment of accomplishment. As if somehow I’ve served some sort of purpose in helping keep the earth just okay for a little bit longer, keeping my health in check and gosh darn it, sticking the middle finger straight up to oil companies. I laugh every time I roll through every gas station. Something inside my head tells me that riding a bicycle is better than driving...

Progressive changes are being made though bicycling inside our community. People are noticing that a healthy lifestyle brings sex appeal. San Jose as whole is becoming persuaded with living a healthy, sexy, more cost-efficient lifestyle. Just subtract the cost of driving. You have oil changes, tire rotations, gas, and auto insurance. All of these cost are putting a strain on our local economy and filling the pockets of oil and auto tycoons. San Jose’s monthly bike party shows just how creative our minds really are. Having been on just a few so far, along with 3,000+ members of our community, you begin to see just how change is made. Bicycling emerges you into this rising sub-culture that is classy and artsy. You begin seeing the city from the perspective as a worker ant, rather than, the kid staring down from up above. It shows how to no longer be dependent on foreign and domestic oil. Whether bicycling is just a hobby or a lifestyle, style is threaded along the seams of our jeans. ...