EDDEE

There's a little bike shop on Hawthorne St. in Portland called Coventry Cycles (one of the city's 100+ bike shops btw). They deal primarily in recumbents, and they are one of the west coast's premier dealers. Recumbents are seated bikes, they go really fast and look really funny--they're especially great form people who can't ride an upright bike due to age, back pain, knee pain or a physical disability. For quite a while now Zach has been interested in trying out tandem-y recumbent-y bikes to see if he might be able to use one with his friend Sam who has some developmental disabilities. We went to check out the Hase Pino and ended up chatting for a long time with Edee. She recently completed a degree that focused on physical rehabilitation using recumbents so it was really interesting to pick her brain and soak in some of her enthusiasm for these weird speedy machines.