'I've made the bicycle my lifestyle'

'I've made the bicycle my lifestyle'
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Graham Kislingbury
2014-02-17
Link: http://www.gazettetimes.com/oregon-outdoors/i-ve-made-the-bicycle-my-lifestyle/article_af1947b9-5194-512d-9226-d41e2decc4bf.html

It would be nice to be car free, but living in suburbia with autocentric routes and city planning make it difficult. All excuses I know...

"When Ben Roberts was a teenager, the last thing he wanted to do was ride a bike.

“I wasn’t into biking,” he says. “I looked at biking as a juvenile thing. Once I was 16 and able to legally drive, I left biking and worked on cars.”

As recently as 2009, he had a hot rod, a Toyota 4Runner and a Honda Accord. “I had too many cars,” he admits.

That year, while managing a Medford cell phone repair store with his brother, the recession hit the business and his pocketbook."



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