When you're in and around cycling circles, you hear it often: "I've got to upgrade (insert specific cycling part here)...I need a new bike...that one's just for the track," and that's just what's coming out of my own mouth.For all its form and function as a means for fitness or competition, the bicycle can hold a different level of importance for some.
A film, like the "Bicycle Thief," or the image (AP: Mohammad Zubair) of Afghan refugees in Pakistan preparing to return to their homeland, reminds me just how important a bicycle is as the sole means of transportation or to maintaining someone's livelihood.
I doubt that they've strapped those bicycles on top of their make-shift caravan thinking "I've got to put some kilometers in when we get there because I need to stay on form."
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