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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Confession

Well, I'm really happy with my job at this Global Cycle Solutions. Tomorrow, for a bit of show, I'll be biking around town with some products trying to raise our profile and set up some dealers. I love riding my bike (okay, borrowing Jodie's bike...but still). I've probably always been a big bike rider, right?

Not exactly. I didn't really learn to bike as a little 5 year old. Or even before my 10th birthday. I couldn't ride a bike when I got my driver's license. I learned to ride in the summer of 2006. I was 20. It goes back to the fact that I am a notoriously bad student. I always have to learn at my own pace. With things like math or geography, that tends to be at a pretty enthusiastic pace. Tasks that take a degree of dexterity tend to move at a glacial pace (I had to wear velcro shoes until the 5th grade because I refused to learn how to tie my shoes before then).

My friend Molly was walking her bike home, so I decided to give it a try. Molly is 8 inches shorter than me, but I didn't even raise the seat. After a bit of patience (and a dose of encouragement from Molly), I finally managed to figure it out. It was even more exciting when I got to try it out on a Daniel-sized bike.

So, these days I am an avid bike rider. But I wasn't always this way.

5 comments:

Yunxin (Victor) Ni said...

Hi,are you willing to help me, a graduate student in University of Minnesota, understand the electrical needs of the people in Tanzania?

Daniel said...

Hi Victor, I can try to help you. My email address is daniel.mm at globalcyclesolutions.com . If you have specific questions, I will do my best to answer them.

Unknown said...

Victor has sent a suspiciously similar comment to one of my recent posts. Victor, may we administer you to a turing test please?

Yunxin (Victor) Ni said...

Ah,sorry for the spamming,I am a real human...and that's exactly why I get bored after posting the same thing on 30 different blogs...

Sasha said...

I didn't know you rode your first bike junior year! (or late April/May/June of sophomore year)