Mike, that’s truly high praise (surely a bit too high, but I’ll take it as a nice respite from the assault threats of others.) Thanks for reading.

The future looks very bright for free-wheelin’ two-wheelers like yourself. Plenty of reasons why, but one of the more blatant that I’ll offer up is what’s known as the “last mile” transportation problem: the end (and in tandem, the beginning) of a transit route wherein only that individual is being served. Where your local bus or train stops to drop you off is where your personal last mile begins.

Transit organizations, governments, urban planners, even many tech companies would just love for all consumers to solve the last mile on their own. If everyone simply walked or biked to a collection point, mass transit and rideshares could bask in unbridled efficiency. Everyone whose resources are strained by serving the last mile, is a great fan of bikes.

The carmakers don’t love bikes, but their power is quickly disintegrating as they struggle to stay relevant in a future where car ownership appears to be a very unpopular notion.

The currency of the future is efficiency: the energy source you use as a biker, and the flexibility of paths you can afford to take on a bike, make you an immensely valuable component of the urban planning revolution.