This bike is old, plain and slow. So why do I love it so much? | Why humans get so attached to bikes

The most common question I receive on this channel, by far, is some version of this: "Yo, what's that bike you're riding?"
I've done videos on my winter bikes, but I've never dedicated a video to my beloved summer bike, for a simple reason: There's not much to talk about. It's an old, plain, simple machine. But it's also the bike I love more than any other.
So, on the verge of the bike's first tune-up in a decade (bad bike owner, bad!), I decided to finally give up some details on this bike, and, in the process, explore a little more deeply why I love this bike and, more broadly, why humans seem to make such strong emotional attachments to bicycles.

Thanks to Karly Coleman for sharing her research into the human-bicycle emotional connection. Follow her at https://twitter.com/szaracat and read her complete study here: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/384f7788-e638-4a01-adf9-2cbe8e7b7e80

0:00 Introduction
2:33 Connection to childhood
3:00 The bike as a transmitter of information
4:10 Connection to place
5:21 Bicycles as we age
6:09 The bike as a symbol of social change

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