Sunday, May 26, 2013

Side Roads Can Make City Bicycling Efforts More Rewarding

By Rob Sutter


I think that city bicycling efforts can be as versatile as riders want them to be. What I mean by this is that there are a number of predetermined roads which can be traveled along and they are the ones which are most common. However, is it possible that people can utilize other paths which are not used nearly as often? The side paths which are seen as the roads less traveled could be more rewarding, if you know exactly how to work with them.

Even though I talk about video games quite frequently, I think that they can be correlated to the aforementioned cycling efforts. Certain titles seem to encourage you to travel outward and see what lies in wait outside of the main path. The "Elder Scrolls" series does this expertly as you don't have to immediately pay attention to the main quest. In fact, it's possible that you can ignore it entirely if all you want to do is see what the landscape possesses and what you can gain from it.

What would happen if we constantly stayed in the same roads day in and day out? I would like to think that matters would become dull and we would be clamoring for something in order to break up the mundane nature that we stick to in our everyday lives. I believe that there is challenge in changing things up a bit. Being able to take the idea of familiarity and breaking it up a bit could prove effective in the long run when it comes to cycling.

Haven't you ever gone about your own city bicycling efforts, or one related to them, without ever paying much mind to the normal paths? Instead, you probably had the idea of going another way to see what awaited you. Maybe there were much more striking sights or better environments; perhaps you found nothing to note at all. Regardless, being proactive in searching for other ways may very well be supported by a number of authorities which know much about cycling, Linus Bike included amongst them.

I think that video games have shown me a number of things but I believe it's taught me about exploration more than anything else. I was able to pick up on what you can gain by simply moving in a different path than what the game had intended for me. City bicycling efforts work in the same way; if you want them to, that is. If this is the case, then you may be able to utilize your drive to see what is out there and give you a better understanding of the world, too.




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