Often Houstonians, upon seeing a strange two-wheeled, pedal-powered machine and its apparently human rider, ask themselves, “why bike?” Why subject yourself to the hotter-than-Hades, muggy, when it-rains-it-pours, car-happy labyrinth of narrow death gauntlets that is this city? Even walking to your destination is often scoffed at with the similar disbelief or misconstrued scorn as cycling. [...]