the GOT bike

As I rode north to Greenfield one of the warm days this week (yay!), I thought to connect between two adjoining apartment complexes to the north of the UMass campus. It's not a shorter route, but it avoids the North Amherst traffic light which can be timed exceptionally badly, plus, it has the perk of not being an option for cars with the fifteen feet of dirt path to complete the connection. Of course, in case I haven't already mentioned thirty-twelve times, it has snowed a lot, so there was the possibility the dirt path connection would actually be a snowy slog, but nope, lots and lots and lots of people on foot had packed it super solid! But even before that, as I exited the north end of campus, I had another chance to appreciate people partaking in pedal propulsion. At the exit of a rotary, there is a crosswalk, and at that crosswalk was a pedestrian, so I stopped. Not only is this required by law, stopping for people walking is just a feel good thing to do, assuming one fee...