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		<title>Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained</title>
		<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<itunes:subtitle>Riding with No Hands in a Somewhat Jaunty Manner</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Ridiculous and sublime bike-themed short stories and essays...</itunes:summary>
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		<copyright>Peter Gelman</copyright>
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			<itunes:name>Peter Gelman</itunes:name>
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			<title>MOBE 08 This Machine Cures Meloncholia</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/86674/mobe-08-this-machine-cures-meloncholia</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained #8. &quot;This Machine Cures Melancholia&quot; 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! ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>bicycle transportation of more than the body</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>Mysteries of the Bicycle number 8: &quot;This Machine Cures Melancholia&quot; by
Peter Gelman. (dangerquestmysteries.com)
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:54:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>MOBE 07 Cycling Toward the End of History</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/57050/mobe-07-cycling-toward-the-end-of</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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) ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>Cycling with a Hub Dynamo in wartime</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>MOBE 7 by Peter Gelman... Bicycle Dynamo Hub Wartime Metaphysics</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:23:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title>MOBE 06 The CycloPimpernel in the Adventure of the Free French-Munchie Ambush</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 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) ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>The story of a Portland bicycle superhero</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained number 6, by Peter Gelman. This is the first Cyclo-Pimpernel adventure.</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:17:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title>MOBE 5 Pedaling Through the Paleolithic</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/56447/mobe-5-pedaling-through-the-paleolithic</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>Unga! Raa! me hunt with bike and spear</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>Pedaling Through the Paleolithic.  A true story of life in America. By Peter Gelman.</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:39:52 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title>MOBE 4 Coffeebike</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/56444/mobe-4-coffeebike</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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? ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>a wide-awake bicycle tale of our times</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>A wide-awake bicycle tale of our times.</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:18:55 -0700</pubDate>
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			<itunes:keywords>Awake, BBC, bicycle, bike, bridge, cafe, caffeine, clerk, Coffee, Commute</itunes:keywords><guid>http://m.podshow.com/media/9358/episodes/56444/mobe-56444-04-07-2007.mp3</guid><enclosure url="http://m.podshow.com/media/9358/episodes/56444/mobe-56444-04-07-2007.mp3" length="31380612" type="audio/mpeg" /></item> 
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			<title>MOBE 3 The Surly Shakespearean Insult-Quoting Bicycle</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/56439/mobe-3-the-surly-shakespearean-insult-quoting</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained, number 3. A Brief Encounter with the Surly Shakesperean Insult Quoting Bicycle, by Peter Gelman. www.DangerQuestMysteries.com ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>Adventures in Bicycle Antique Appraisal</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>MOBE 3, A Brief Encounter with the Surly Shakespearean Insult Quoting Bicycle, by Peter Gelman.</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:06:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title>MOBE 2 Recumbent Cyclings Have Big, Big, Big, Big, Big, not Small, BIG Butts</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/56094/mobe-2-recumbent-cyclings-have-big-big</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>An Examination of the Large Posteriors of Certain Cyclists.</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained #2... Recumbent Cyclists Have Big, Big, Big, Big, Big, not Small, BIG Butts.</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:19:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title>MOBE 1 An Intimate Examination of Bicycle Bungee Science</title>
			<itunes:author>Peter Gelman</itunes:author>
			<link>http://www.mevio.com/episode/56090/mobe-1-an-intimate-examination-of-bicycle</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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 (&quot;me&quot;) 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. ]]></description>
			<itunes:subtitle>Dangers and Merits of Bicycle Bungees</itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary>Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained #1... An Intimate Examination of Bicycle Bungee Science!</itunes:summary>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:01:36 -0700</pubDate>
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