The Times They Are a-Changin'

Is that one of the most trite phrases ever, since Bob Dylan released his third album in 1964? Probably. But the fact is that they are. We discovered something on a bike ride recently. Just to give you an idea of where we are:

Along a huge, highly trafficated motorway, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. (A desolate industrial area in the outskirts of city - you can find these areas all around the world.) You can ride your bike here, but you don't really want to. Riding on a bike lane just 10 metres from a six lane motorway, and with that industrial landscape on the other side, bushes and chain-link fencing is simply just boring. This is a landscape designed for cars, designed for passing through.

And in the middle of this bike-hostile environment is a drive-in hamburger restaurant. Just as designed for cars as the rest of the area, put there to be able to sell you something quick to eat, without having to leave your car.

But on our latest trip along this motorway we noticed that there's a bike stand outside this drive-in hamburger restaurant. And there's even a bike parked there!

When there are bike stands outside drive-in hamburger resturants, far from the city centre, with bikes parked there it is pretty clear that something is happening...

Peak oil? Or maybe he (it's a guy's bike) just really wanted to ride his bike? The times they are a-changin'

Ride safe!