The bicycle, a human-powered machine of motion. Simply, really. Wheels. Pedals. Handlebars.Go. Through the city. To the park with your kids. Into the countryside, where cows stop chewing grass to look up (seemingly unimpressed), white-tailed deer scamper across the road, and hawks soar overhead, riding the very same wind gusts you upon your bicycle. Up hills. Up mountains. And down, down, down, down.

From “The Cyclist’s Bucket List” by Ian Dille (Rodalebooks.com)