Origin is the goal.
Karl Kraus
The aboriginal bicycle is that bicycle that allows the origin to seep through into you. It allows you to touch the source by taking you to it. The bicycle is not just a great way to travel economically, ecologically and efficiently, but also aboriginally, especially, if, like me, you live in a city surrounded by primal hills.
The bicycle like the body locates, locomotes, and localizes. The story of man's demise is the story of dislocation, is the story of the anti-bicycle, the motor-car. The motor car doesn't just dislocate and disembody the driver from space (and the origin), it destroys the earth piece by piece by paving it over and treating it like a grand car park. Car drivers are thus destroyers hidden in plain sight, destroyers who shrug their shoulders at being called destroyers because someone has said that it's ok to destroy.
The aboriginal bicycle on the other hand is a conjoiner and seeks to right the destruction the car has done. The bicycle locates the cyclist in space and time thus universalizing her. One becomes not just the earth when one moves under one's own steam but the whole cosmos. This is the difference between moving yourself and allowing a pollutant to carry you.
Only dead and injured animals, farm animals, circus animals, animals on their way to the slaughter, allow themselves to be carried...
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