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(Above: icy, snowy ruts are the normal biking conditions in a Saskatoon winter) I bike year-round for a lot of reasons. I like staying healthy and positive. I like witnessing nature and being in its midst. I like saving money and getting to hear highenergy music whilst performing a suitably high-energy activity. Perhaps most obviously I bike because I like discovering that I can get around my city just fine, and often better, without operating a vehicle fuelled by dirty energy (yes, I know dirty fuel-powered machines were used to create my bike but one can’t deny that bikes are still less damaging to the environment than are the SUVs and trucks that populate our roads). When I’m out biking in the winter, blasting down the street over patches of black ice, cutting a straight line along the narrow rut dug by car tires, using inertia to my favour and standing upright on my
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WINTER BIKING
(Below: Winter bikers often have to brace themselves in anticipation of icy patches that lay ahead.)
frame bracing my muscles and staying hyperfocused all just to avoid falling, I know all too well that what I’m doing is dangerous. I assume motorists know this fact as well. Yet day in and day out I have motorists—who to