As the behemoths of the auto industry continue to topple over and die. They leave in their wake, huge soul sucking black holes of their once grand corporate consumerist facades. The epic scale of the failure of this once shining European import business is humbling in it's self.
A Ferrari and Maserati dealer ship occupies the lot next door and stands as a grand testament to man's simple will to defy reason at all cost. While in the pursuit of excess and pleasure.
An oil changing business, up the road has not fair so well either. As I left Newport and passed through the endless sand fields on my way up to Huntington, the death and contraction of the auto industry and it's appendages stood in stark contrast, to the springing to life of cycling culture all around.
Simply put there were people on bikes everywhere. Road bikes, cruisers, and fixies mostly. But none the less hundreds of people out on a beautiful sunny Saturday ridding bikes. I shot enough photo's of people out ridding for a weeks worth of posts and rode about 60 miles in the process. epic.
2 comments:
...glad to hear it, glad to see it...
...less cars, more bikes is a good thing...it's empowering, particularly for those who don't ride as often as some of us hard-cores...
I continue to love the pictures of bikes in California. Up here in Canada it's still cold, but the light is at the end of the tunnel, we're riding more now.
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