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New, shiny and RED....its a bike!

Posted by Alia Merali Wed, 10 May 2006 11:27:00 GMT

So we got me a bike! 2 weeks ago I got a bike and its been really good fun actually. While growing up i've always had a bike. When I was a lot younger it was a yellow BMX - the coolest thing. Alot of my memories of growing up involve doing things with the bike. We used to continually cycle up and down from our house to the big tree, which really wasnt far, but we lived on a main road and werent allowed to cycle very far. One of the funniest memories I have is when my sister rode into a lampost while looking at someone she thought she knew! We used to take our bikes with us on holidays around the UK, and even all the way to Italy.

Well now i have a bike again and its pretty fun, well it was once we figured out that the higher you put the seat the less it hurts to sit on it! Whats pretty cool is that since google maps have taken out a street map for Barcelona you can now calculate the distance that you want to go with GMaps Pedometer, its pretty cool. Last weekend we went to the beach with the bikes to watch an air race. We calculated that we cycled almost 11km. In Barcelona the handiest thing you can have is a bicycle. Its most of the time quicker than using the metro, safer than a motorcycle with all the bike lanes around, and much cheaper than having a car, plus much more convenient, there like isnt any parking spaces anywhere esp in the city centre.