The Exercise Bike

Every day after work he would ride on his stationary bike. After more than a decade, it had accumulated more than 30,000 miles.

His bike grew weary. Other bikes, the ones that ride outdoors, after a decade of wear and tear, have seen 30,000 miles of the real world. It hadn’t moved more than a few feet in a decade.

Today after work, the bike was gone.

It rode and rode. Across cities and states, uphill and down, in the bright sun and horrible rain, under tunnels and over bridges, day and night, racing cars and yellow lights, it rode.