We've been published on the Brooks England Blog! Brooks makes the best leather saddles available and they were kind enough to offer us a good discount on our saddles when we told them about Food Cycles Bicycle Tour. Here's the first couple of paragraphs, and a link to the full post!
Every Brooks saddle owner
has had this experience. You pull up in front of the store, school or
work and some non-cyclist approaches you to gawk at your saddle. It’s
sleek, they say, but where’s the padding? You couldn’t pay me to sit on
that thing!
On our tour through the southern United States, my partner Hannah and
I have these interactions frequently. But the odd looks we receive
outside the grocery store are nothing compared to those we receive
inside. Passing on the fried chicken, ramen noodles and “sports” drinks,
we stock up on eggs, prunes and salad greens, then refuse the plastic
bag at the checkout line. We know we’re marking ourselves as weirdos –
but hey, we already did that when we walked in with spandex on our bodies and metal in
our shoes.
Since we left the progressive west coast and began heading across the
southwestern deserts, we’ve stuck out like sore thumbs, but that’s
okay. Seeking out pockets of the local food movement across the “Belly
of America”, we’ve also found a new definition for the term “eating
sustainably”. It’s how we keep ourselves moving forward day after day,
to complete our goal of riding 6,000 miles in six months.
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