ChiWhoBike #87
I’ve been biking since I was five, so I’ve been biking for quite a while. It’s been fun - you can travel around different areas, see different environments and different things. For me, biking is mostly traveling and exploring, like going to the Japanese garden. There you can’t use a car, you gotta walk, but if you use a bike it’s way more convenient to get there. You can also go to new gyms, Navy Pier, basically any place that you can have fun in, and see a different type of environment.
And there’s a lot of things you won’t see if you’re going fast with a car. So if you go on a steady pace with a bike, you can see a whole bunch of different things, like art on the walls over there, or places like this. I would never even know this was over here if I didn’t ride a bike.
One of my favorite experiences is when I rode my bike for two hours, all the way from, I think it was Rogers Park, up North, all the way back home. It was a really fun experience, and I saw a whole bunch of areas I’d never been into. I got lost underground in lower Wacker (I really wish I didn’t go down there) I got lost riding down there, but I managed to find my way out of it. So it’s been a fun experience.
With public transportation, you’ll have to wait a certain time to catch this bus or this train, or if you’re driving, you gotta go through traffic, wait through red lights and stuff. But with a bike you can easily just breeze through. You can ride on the street, sidewalk sometimes, not recommended, but sometimes. And you can always go in areas where most cars are not allowed, like roads that are blocked off. And Chicago is a fun space to ride your bike in. Of course you gotta look out for the cars and stuff. But if you follow the rules of the road, you’re gonna have fun coming around here with a bike.
