Cycling Friendly Community

[emily_in_nc]

Bike communities are refreshing. They tend to center around colleges. Too bad bicycles weren't the rage when I wash in college--I may have found my passion sooner

I've thought the same thing. We live in Chapel Hill now, which is where I went to school. Back in those days (I grad. in '83), no one rode bikes (or ran, for that matter). I do vaguely remember a bike rack at my dorm but no bikes on it at all. Girls were less likely to ride than guys back then, and this was an all-girls dorm. Now, we ride through campus all the time, and every dorm has a full bike rack; we see students cycling everywhere, there are just bikes everywhere you look. It would be neat to be a student in such an environment. Especially since I was so broke in my college years, it would have saved me on gas money and time (since I walked so much).