Early one morning, I joined her and a few dozen others for a six-mile bicycleride promoting the city's new bike-sharing program yes, in this oil-guzzling, no-zoning-laws sprawl of some 600 car-friendly square miles.
He lived on paved, lighted city streets, and a bicycleride away were the Asian drugstore and the Armenian grocery store and the corner where black Cubans drank coffee and talked Dodgers baseball.
In the end, an entire network of neurons is developed to remember this single task, which accounts for the fact that we can still ride a bicycle years after we first learned how to do so.