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"My Higgins"

Dr. Rodney Chang (Pygoya), 2119 N. King St., Suite 206, Honolulu, HI 95819, USA

Back in the '50s in a small town in Hawaii, I rode my
Higgins bike everywhere. For a grade school boy, my
bicycle was my "wheels." That precarious balancing act, riding
a bike for first time (before crashing into the fence), is still
remembered as one of life's greatest accomplishments. This year when
the old house was sold, I found my old bike, totally rusted and disjointed, like the
remains of a long dead friend. I salvaged a wheel from the
dumpster that hauled the household junk away, including the rest of
my Higgins. Although the brittle rubber on the tire is worn thin to the
metal hub, the tire is a momento of the days of my youth when
I had freedom to roam further than I was permitted to.

Pygoya