fahrraederinen

so suess.
sowieso,
in muenchen jetzt, a most interesting atmosphere. i´m not sure i´ve ever seen so much big old stuff just pop up out of nowhere before. oops there´s another big ass old thinger oh and wait turn your head the other way and there´s a lot more but don´t trip over the cute bike girls and watch out for andy´s head as the tram comes.....
yesterday i took off for a little walk of my own as the other fellas went ahead on this bike tour thingy and had a few thoughts come to mind. first off i was reminded a bit of san francisco, the buildings being built about as tall and spread out in a similar fashion...meaning 20-30 stories lower than manhattan buildings and space to breath air and not exhaust such a novel concept that is...i also began thinking about what it would be like to ride a bike here..as an avid maybe a little less than avid rider in the city i began to think about how flat muenchen is and how possible it would be to ride a single gear, fixed or otherwise...then began to realize that many people back in nyc ride this kind of bike for the image it portrays and surely i am just as much a part of that yet it also means much less maintanence if only i could spell..but riding the aforementioned bike also denotes a style in which many people in nyc ride that being rough, abrasive, nearly combative competing for space with cars who pay little to no attention talk on their mobiles abuse turn signals and stop lights alike...the near exact opposite of here with bike lanes built into and marked as part of the sidewalk or street they go everywhere, very few people ride in the street if a bike lane is present and not many people seem caught up in the style of their bike or their riding everyone has thicker than racing tires mostly cyclecross or all terain tires and the bikes correspond....cryptonite locks don´t exist and since everyone already has and uses a bike probably don´t need to bikes remain locked either to themselves or quickly to some nearby post or one of the absurdly abundant bike parking thingies....so then i began to think about riding my bike here as it is now, single gear free wheel racing tires seat over the handlebars and how would i ride put into this situation (insert beginning of metaphor here) and figured i´d just be out vying with traffic watching out for the tram tracks and trying not to get into an accident because i was looking at the cute girl on the bike and not the road.......and wouldn´t that just be damned american of me to introduce our agressive riding style into an already long established pacifist perfectly viable system. chameleons we should all be when entering a proven system it is certainly not mine (ours) to change most likely for the worse....so i decided i would keep my bike because it offers me the most comfort riding but would most likely end up on the designated paths......
i shall continue
briefly to mention that the public transport systems here also appear to run much smoother comparitively with nyc with multiple systems available, the s-bahn, u-bahn, tram and bus and this being just the local transport so this is not to mention the smoothness of travel we´ve experienced with the regional and ICE trains....more thoughts vielleicht spaeter i think i´ve used up my thought processes