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A tank pleasure in biking

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was the arrival in Quito on Wednesday, and Friday starting at quarter past five p.m. from the seat of Jipijapa Biciacción in the south to meet more people in the Plaza Foch. In Quito, there are two organizations working in the field of bicycles in the city: Biciacción and Ciclópolis. They started as one and unfortunately now working on their own. Some time ago that I Biciacción activities carried out in Quito and trips outside the city and, I admit, with far unwilling to participate, that is as integral to get me one. Motorists are the first disappointment. In the crosswalk they have a preference for taxation. It strikes me, surely, by the habit of crossing the street in Santiago with relative confidence as drivers of cars and even Transantiago to stop passing pedestrians, and even launched here with some aggressiveness. The second surprise is found in the Plaza Foch, where the head by half past six in the bicycle Amazonas, Claire and Christian. Claire was a basic machine shop bicleta...