Word: biking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more difficult because you must pass an actual driving test. One of the reasons Marah purchased a cruiser instead of a sportbike is because sportbikes tend to be driven much faster and she knew she wouldn’t be temped to speed. “My kind of bike is made for easy, laid back kind of driving,” she says. Marah also won’t participate in any competitions in order not to damage her body. “During competitions, you have to be completely reckless and not care about anything else. You?...
...novel motorcycling experiences. While traveling through Germany this past summer as a research writer for Let’s Go, Marah rode a bright red motorcycle thanks to the kindness of a stranger. She met a man on the street who offered without any hesitation to loan his bike to her free of charge as she completed her itinerary. “I’ve decided he was an angel. He made my life so much easier,” she says. And in the upcoming weeks, Marah plans to take up an invitation to ride alongside Harvard University...
...Center, when he perished in the flames and had his picture beamed around the world, friends back in Egypt were dumbfounded. They looked and looked again at the photos, trying to find the kid they once knew. "To fly a plane, what a joke! Mohamed could hardly ride a bike," says classmate Osama Abul Enein. "He came from an average middle-class background. Mohamed no way could have done that," agrees Ibrahim Salah, 33, a Cairo engineer who knew him in college...
...present anyway. But soon, a mysterious stranger (Hopkins), who introduces himself as Ted Braughtigan, moves in upstairs and offers to pay Bobby a dollar a week to read the newspaper aloud to him and to watch for the “lowmen.” With visions of his bike in mind, he agrees, and slowly, Braughtigan begins to change Bobby’s perception of reality...
Immediately, it is obvious that there is something different about Braughtigan. He knows things intuitively—that Bobby wants a bike, for example. His fear of the mysterious “lowmen,” whom he claims are hunting him, puzzles Bobby. He also descends into strange dazes during which he becomes oblivious to the outside world, occurrences that scare Bobby more and more the closer he becomes to his new friend. And so, for Bobby, the summer, his magical Atlantis, passes with a series of startling revelations and changes in perception. In this period of growth...