/lit/ - Literature

Used to be homeless, was employed the entire time. Didn't feel like sleeping rough, even though I had lived on the road before, so found a homeless shelter. It was like 60 bucks a week for a bed and a locker. Not bad. Met some other migrant workers.

Got tired of walking all over the city all the time just to get to work, so decided to get some transportation. Bought a road bike for 200 bucks. It was pretty janky and beat up, went pretty fast and was good for the flat terrain of the city. Left the bike in the city when I left. Lived in the ghetto many years finally after getting out of homelessness.

Now I just walk to work or catch a ride, sometimes will call a taxi. There is a bus route but it doesn't go way out in the country where I work. Got to thinking, a road bike would be useful, but I can't take it on the highway, backroads, out in the country.

You need some serious speed and horsepower for a street legal highway bike. It needs a serious motor, a motorbike or moto. A street legal dual sport can go fast enough for the highway, even really fast, and be used as a dirt bike on backroads and terrain.

These things are huge in Mexico, tons of people get around on motos instead of cars, even on dirt trails and backroads. I see people driving them all the time out in the country. A friend of mine, who is Mujahideen, was telling me about these dirt bikes.

When I was homeless, there were some Muslim people who were helping the homeless. They handed out water bottles and snack bars to the homeless out of charity to the poor at a Christian mission, working together to help those in need.