What is a bald head (at least for the cyclist) if not a valve through which steam may be released? Is this not then part of the evolution of the cyclist, dispensing with the non-essential (hair) in order to get to the essence of areodynamic perfection and metabolic thermostatic control? Have the bicycle, (bald) cyclist, and earth, (like the wing, bird, and earth), not then become one in their conviviality and intimacy together? Has the bald cyclist in becoming more streamlined and elementally aligned, in his headwinding and allowing the wind to slide over the body, become an earth-being that is still shaped (formed and in-formed) by the elements and the earth? Is the cyclist not then, when compared to the industrialized and the closetted, the carried and the over-clothed, some kind of bird who by way of his attunement with the earth can still regulate his metabolism, migrate under his own steam, and survive in the most lachrymose and inclement of climates?
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