title: Why I Ride: Tales of Inspiration for Cyclists
author: Stephen Auerbach
description: WHY I RIDE: Stories from the Road of Life A Photo Book filled with Tales of Inspiration for Cyclists Edited by Bicycle Dreams Director Stephen Auerbach WHY I RIDE is a one-of-a-kind photo book featuring first-person testimonials from incredible cyclists all across the globe. These intimate and powerful tales make this book the go to source for inspiration and motivation for the cyclist who wants to connect with the community and find the spiritual fuel to hit the hills even harder than they did yesterday. WHY I RIDE delivers a revealing glimpse into the inner lives of cyclists and their many reasons for riding. Is there any tool in our lives greater than the bicycle that can heal our heart and our health? Selected from nearly 2000 submissions, this 120 page, 2015 edition is the first of what will be annual editions for many years to come. This edition is a SOFTCOVER BOOK and the dimensions are 9 x 6.
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  Ivan Illich and Jean Robert
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Contribution by Ivan Illich and Jean Robert
  
  
  to a Symposium on bicycle freedoms in Berlin,
  
  
  Summer 1992.
  
  
  
  
  
  We want to tell a story that reflects some nonsense about our way of life, and
  that story is about traffic. We tell the story because we believe that
  tomorrow morning all could live in a more quiet and perhaps even bicycle-
  centered society if only people believed that modesty can guide political
  choice.
  
  
  Reasoning shows that transport can enhance freedom of movement only within the
  limits in which one can renounce it. Today, such renunciation is barely viable
  in a society where the traffic jam has become paradigmatic for all kinds of
  consumption. Transportation, 