Welcome to new Team RocBike member Jody Benedict! (Comments: 0)

JASON SEZ: I’m sure many RocBike readers are familiar with That Which Rolls, the wonderful blog written by Jody Benedict. Recently, Team RocBike member Julie White asked Jody whether she’d like to become a RocBike contributor. Happily for us, Jody agreed. Here’s a little bit more about Jody:

Jody Benedict works as a “web person” at a small college but she’s also a “print person.” A few years ago she might have called herself a graphic designer but the boundaries of her trade have become fuzzy and unfocused.

Very early in life, Jody decided she hated bikes as the result of a few unfortunate accidents (one nasty one involved an electrified barbed wire fence) and left her bike to rust under a bush somewhere. As she grew older she realized that she hated cars more than she hated bikes and she’d rather leave her car to rust in the driveway. She started bike commuting on her rusty bike. (Back then she only lived two miles from work.) She still didn’t LOVE biking until she discovered that all bikes are not created equal and a tune up and properly inflated tires can make a world of difference.

She eventually got a new bike and fell in love with it. She realized how far she could go on her own power and discovered a feeling of freedom, a feeling of self reliance, and a feeling of connection to the world around her that she never felt when she was moving through the world in her car-bubble.

Currently, Jody is a multi-modal commuter (bike+bus). Her commute is a minimum of 7 miles round trip but she usually rides between 14 and 22 because she doesn’t like standing and waiting around for things (like
buses). She could skip the bus part entirely but that would mean a round trip commute of almost 60 miles and she’s not in that kind of shape or doesn’t have that kind of bike, she’s not sure which. She still has a lot to learn about cycling but the process of learning keeps her interested.

She also has other interests which include camping, hiking, insects, mushrooms, observing and understanding the natural world in general, board and video games, reading, preparing for the zombie-pocalypse, and probably some other stuff she can’t think of right now. She spends way too much time
writing boring entries on her personal blog, That Which Rolls, named in honor of Alfred Jarry’s bike.

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