Welcome to the moth. I'm Emily Couch, and in this episode, we're taking a ride, with three stories all centered around biking.

The Tour de France has us thinking about cycling, and even though I know I'll never ride up a mountain with calves of steel or get one of those cute yellow jerseys, there's something special about being on a bike.

Something that, pun intended, you never forget.

First up, we have Noah Gilbert, who told this at a Boston Story Slam where the theme was

grown. Here's Noah, live at the mall.

I'm in Boston doing college tours.

And the thing that I notice walking around Boston is the protected bike lanes.

Because I come from Omaha, Nebraska, which is a small, medium-sized city in Nebraska.

And we have one.

It's about two miles long.

It kind of sucks.

There's plastic bollards glued onto the ground

and cars run into it and parking it often.

But I love this bike lane because it's the only one

and it's because how I get to and from school every day

and because it tells anyone on a bike that the way they get around matters and is important.

About a month ago we got the announcement from Mayor Jean Stoffert that the bike lane was going to be demolished.

Yeah, right?

So I texted my partner and I texted one of my Yeah, right?

So I texted my partner and I texted one of my very dear friends and we got together and we got coffee and we made a plan.

My partner and I had been dating for about nine months at that point and we had done all of the high school things that you want and look forward to and expect. But if you're a queer person, you're like, is that going to happen?

And it does, and it did. We did. We went to the homecoming and dances and everything. We were being

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