Why does the poet call his bicycle his friend
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HEY FRIEND ANSWER IS........
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Wheels of Fire: Writers on Bicycles
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Alon Raab

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Under the sign of the bicycle, writers and riders share a special affinity. Alon Raab offers a global literary tour.
Bicycles: because love requires trust and balance. – Nikki Giovanni
In the beginning was the bicycle wheel and it went swish, swish, swish . . .
It is a cool autumn morning and I am riding downhill. The wind is blowing across my face, the air is crisp, the light filters through the trees. I am gliding fast, past houses and cars. My legs and lungs are powering me forward, and I feel a loving sense of movement. Some people’s lives are lived under the sign of the computer, telephone, or stock exchange. My life has always been connected with that most simple invention, the bicycle.
Bells, sprockets, tires, dynamo lights, spokes, and the strong spaces between the spokes. I was still a toddler when my parents gave me a shiny red tricycle and six years old when a beautiful “Flying Camel” green bicycle, adorned with a silver decal bearing its namesake, appeared by my side. Since then I have felt a deep love toward bicycles and an appreciation of their generosity, ferrying me without complaint or squeak to play, school, work, friends, and my beloved. This gratitude was shared also by Albert Einstein—who reportedly discovered the theory of relativity while on a bicycle—and by the legions of writers who have sailed upon a bi-cycle and sung its praises. “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets,” proclaimed journalist and essayist Christopher Morley in his 1917 collection Parnassus on Wheels, and indeed a team of bicycle enthusiasts would be worthy of winning any Tour de Literature contest. Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Jarry, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Aldous Huxley, Bruno Schulz, Lu Xun, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Naguib Mahfouz, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henry Miller, Edward Gorey, Astrid Lindgren, William Saroyan, R. K. Narayan, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, Alan Sillitoe, Iris Murdoch, Rita Dove, William Stafford, and Seamus Heaney are but some of its luminaries. Writers from every continent have paid homage to cycling, describing the joy and sometime pain felt when mounting a machine known as a “silent steed” and a “two-wheeled dream with which to wield dreams.” These creations are a source of personal self-discovery that also illuminate larger political, social, and cultural realities.
Bicycles are a source of personal self-discovery that also illuminate larger political, social, and cultural realities.
119
ESSAYS
Wheels of Fire: Writers on Bicycles
by
Alon Raab

Photo by Pesis/FLIKR
Under the sign of the bicycle, writers and riders share a special affinity. Alon Raab offers a global literary tour.
Bicycles: because love requires trust and balance. – Nikki Giovanni
In the beginning was the bicycle wheel and it went swish, swish, swish . . .
It is a cool autumn morning and I am riding downhill. The wind is blowing across my face, the air is crisp, the light filters through the trees. I am gliding fast, past houses and cars. My legs and lungs are powering me forward, and I feel a loving sense of movement. Some people’s lives are lived under the sign of the computer, telephone, or stock exchange. My life has always been connected with that most simple invention, the bicycle.
Bells, sprockets, tires, dynamo lights, spokes, and the strong spaces between the spokes. I was still a toddler when my parents gave me a shiny red tricycle and six years old when a beautiful “Flying Camel” green bicycle, adorned with a silver decal bearing its namesake, appeared by my side. Since then I have felt a deep love toward bicycles and an appreciation of their generosity, ferrying me without complaint or squeak to play, school, work, friends, and my beloved. This gratitude was shared also by Albert Einstein—who reportedly discovered the theory of relativity while on a bicycle—and by the legions of writers who have sailed upon a bi-cycle and sung its praises. “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets,” proclaimed journalist and essayist Christopher Morley in his 1917 collection Parnassus on Wheels, and indeed a team of bicycle enthusiasts would be worthy of winning any Tour de Literature contest. Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Jarry, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Aldous Huxley, Bruno Schulz, Lu Xun, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Naguib Mahfouz, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Henry Miller, Edward Gorey, Astrid Lindgren, William Saroyan, R. K. Narayan, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, Alan Sillitoe, Iris Murdoch, Rita Dove, William Stafford, and Seamus Heaney are but some of its luminaries. Writers from every continent have paid homage to cycling, describing the joy and sometime pain felt when mounting a machine known as a “silent steed” and a “two-wheeled dream with which to wield dreams.” These creations are a source of personal self-discovery that also illuminate larger political, social, and cultural realities.
Bicycles are a source of personal self-discovery that also illuminate larger political, social, and cultural realities.
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the poet called his bicycle a bike ,because when he rides , the bicycle he gone where he like.
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