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Podcast title	Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained
Website URL	http://www.mevio.com/shows/?sh...
Description	Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained! By Peter Gelman: Riding with no hands through the immortal bicycle spheres while snapping our fingers in a somewhat jaunty manner. Funny, odd, silly... Most of these have been published in bike magazines and anthologies (Traffic Life, Bicycle Love). Curious? Try MOBE #3.
Updated	Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:15:48 -0800
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1. MOBE 08 This Machine Cures Meloncholia http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 23.76Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained #8. "This Machine Cures Melancholia" by Peter Gelman. Concerns a winter bike ride in Portland. Bad moods, names for mountains, the pleasures of learning Spanish. A Kapow! The virtues of Mexican cactus thorns and tire slime. A lesson about fixing tire gashes, and about superpower money. Ms. Bolt of Speed! Faster and Faster. This story was published in a U.S. bike magazine, and also in Traffic Life, a Canadian anthology still available via its website trafficlife.com. My website is dangerquestmysteries.com. I wrote this story in the late 1990s. This is a recording from last spring and I hope you will forgive the sound imperfections. I'm working on figuring out better equipment. Thanks for listening!
2. MOBE 07 Cycling Toward the End of History http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 27.60Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 7 by Peter Gelman... Concerns the metaphysics of a cycling with a Bicycle Dynamo Hub in a time of war. (www.DangerQuestMysteries.com)
3. MOBE 06 The CycloPimpernel in the Adventure of the Free French-Munchie Ambush http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 33.58Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 6, by Peter Gelman. This is the first Cyclo-Pimpernel adventure. He is a very handsome bicycle superhero. In this adventure, he seeks some free French munchies that some suburban grocery stores are throwing out in protest. Joan of Arc may figure in this silly story. (www.dangerquestmysteries.com)
4. MOBE 5 Pedaling Through the Paleolithic http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 30.88Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained, number 5. Pedaling Through the Paleolithic. A true story of life in America. By Peter Gelman. www.DangerQuestMysteries.com. Includes office tribal warfare, a review of Ice Age TV channels, Critical Mass bike ride hunt, mastodon on the highway, sabertooth tigers wandering Forest Park in Portland, pterodactyls in the sky. Lots of grunts and grumps... drinkin', grunty unh uunh philosophizing, mockery and praise of trees, bad automotive behavior, sleeping through bad times, and cycling out on the ice.
5. MOBE 4 Coffeebike http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 29.93Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 4... Coffeebike... by Peter Gelman. A wide-awake bicycle tale of our times. The narrator loves his coffeebike, and asks, can I stop drinking too much coffee in our nervous times?
6. MOBE 3 The Surly Shakespearean Insult-Quoting Bicycle http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 40.96Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained, number 3. A Brief Encounter with the Surly Shakesperean Insult Quoting Bicycle, by Peter Gelman. www.DangerQuestMysteries.com
7. MOBE 2 Recumbent Cyclings Have Big, Big, Big, Big, Big, not Small, BIG Butts http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 14.74Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained #2... Recumbent Cyclists Have Big, Big, Big, Big, Big, not Small, BIG Butts. This early MOBE I wrote seemed to upset some people... The magazine that published it followed it up, the next issue, with a retort: a photo line-up of recumbent cyclists from the rear, bent over. I owned a recumbent bike for years.... a Rans VREX. I rode it on a bike tour from Minnesota to Michigan. I also rode it around Minneapolis, and later, Portland. Finally I sold it. But the point is, I do feel that I can claim reasonable authority on this unique and very important subject attending to the very nubby rub of bicycle culture. I read this story on KBOO radio's Bike Show a few years ago. I was utterly terrible in the interview, because I spend most of my time in a grassy cave with only guinea pigs as friends, but I was not at all nervous while reading the story... why? Because I am so confident, authoritarian, snidley, devil-may-care, suave, and indeed, comforted in that magical realm. Okay... I remain your humble, absurd and reverent bicycle writer, Peter Gelman.
8. MOBE 1 An Intimate Examination of Bicycle Bungee Science http://www.mevio.com/view/?kId... download (audio/mpeg, 14.26Mb) Description: Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained #1... A Intimate Examination of Bicycle Bungee Science. This was an early work I did on the vast and profound subject of bicycles. It was the second I wrote, but the first under the MOBE name. It was published in 1998, if I recall correctly. Neal Skorpen drew a great cartoon of the narrator ("me") angrily jumping up and down, bungee cords wrapped tightly around his bike's rear axle, while smiling faces in a Suburu took in the entertainment. Yes... I remain your humble, absurd and reverent bicycle writer, Peter Gelman.