3016 Minnehaha Ave<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s not that I only housed the 2-wheeled lovely for a short time, but that this hybrid just lived in the basement. We tried hard to get to know each other. I didn\u2019t hold it against it when after my first ride and approaching my yard to coolly swoop up in the yard as I saw the cool kids do on their bikes, we crashed after a squirrel jump out of the wisteria.\u00a0\u00a0The bike took an injury, but I bled.\u00a0\u00a0No hard feelings \u2013 I thought it was pretty cool; I showed my war-wounds off while omitting the squirrel-part, and the fact that I was on the sidewalk\u2026but it was years before we revisited.<\/p>\n
I really never embraced bike-riding. It\u2019s like swimming \u2013 I am not a confident swimmer; I get a little panicky. That\u2019s how I felt on the bike.\u00a0\u00a0Plus, I don\u2019t look good in a hat (let alone a helmet).<\/p>\n
I took some rides down to the Falls and man, it was exhilarating! The breeze, the speed\u2026I get it, for the moment, but it\u2019s kind of like roller-skating at Roller Gardens (anybody?): we\u2019re going in a circle, why again?<\/p>\n
I felt a little guilty because there\u2019s history attached to this bike \u2013 really. Like:\u00a0\u00a0family tree, DNA, Ancestry.com \u2013 history.\u00a0\u00a0Back in the day my mom and dad (both from small towns) would go to MPLS (gasp!) to buy my siblings\u2019 and my bikes from a relative of Mom\u2019s. Years after my first, bright-blue Schwinn, I moved into Longfellow.\u00a0\u00a0I toyed with an idea of buying a bike and went to Carlson\u2019s on Minnehaha (The Fix Studio, now).\u00a0\u00a0As soon as I walked in I knew this was the same shop. The folks working there agreed that this was the same store but they didn\u2019t know about a family connection.<\/p>\n
Today I did it.\u00a0\u00a0Off to The Hub. Yeah, I said it \u2013 I went to The Hub.\u00a0I\u2019m cool that way.\u00a0\u00a0I was told that the bike was in great condition (smirk) by the nice guy who came to my car and unloaded for me (thanks for that).\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve never been in The Hub! At 1 in the afternoon on a Friday, there were plenty of folks there looking to buy, or get help with their injured bikes.\u00a0\u00a0Arrangements were made and a figure will be forwarded in a few days and after a great bunch of pictures I walked out without looking back.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.thehubbikecoop.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n@TheHubBikeCoop<\/p>\n
Photo:\u00a0Jean Des Marais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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