山地自行车之旅

生命就是一条河
-Life is a river.
我爷爷经常这样说
-That's what granddad always used to say.
开始与结束之间 有千万条路线
-A beginning, an end, a million different ways in between.
他用河流来形容我的一生 如何流动 如何结束
-He used a metaphor of my whole life how it ended, flowed.
一路向前 克服艰难险阻
-Flowing the path, release the resistant. Barely straight through the impossible.
有时清澈 有时浑浊
-Clear as air, black as night.
爷爷说 不管流向什么方向 如何流动 呈现出怎样的姿态
-But no matter what the direction or how it moved, what it looked like, the point according to granddad
河流永远都是向前流动的
-was that the river always moved forward.
是什么让他年至垂暮还感慨万千呢
-What kept him running the rabbits until he was old and gray?
见证奇迹的时刻到了
-The mystery would lay around the bend.
如今这种奇迹很难被发现了
-These days that mystery is hard to find.
河流离我们越来越远 天空充斥着灰尘
-The river is distant. The sky clouds out of concrete.
对于很多人来说 生命的奇迹 生命的美丽 生命中联系 都已经在不经意间被破坏了
-For many of us life's great adventure, all its beauty, all its connection sells by unnoticed.
有趣的是 河流距离我们并没有想象的那么远
-Funny thing is the river is never that far off.
下面就让我们用一种方式回到生命之河的前进中去
-This is the story of a way back in, to the rush of moving forward.
在地下诞生
-Born from the earth crust.
在泥土中成长
-Grow from the seeds of enervation.
在火焰中锻造-
Forged in fire's industry
强大的工业使人类成为这个地球上最强大的生物
-The earth's most efficient machine creates the most efficient animal.
而自行车 是人类最完美的发明
-But bicycle, are noblest invention.
道路 来来去去 亦如季节
-Trails like the seasons come and go.
多样 美丽 典雅
-Built on a foundation of diversity, beauty, classic elegance.
从不完全重复
-Never quite repeating themselves
一种有着不同的开始 结局以及无数不同过程的奇迹-
A marvel made of beginnings and endings with a million different ways in between.
爷爷就好像是这其中的联系者-
Granddad was all about those connections.
他花在土地上和花在机器上的时间一样多
-He had his hands in the earth as much as he did machines.
也许这就是为什么他更理解生命的意义
-Maybe that's why he understood both sides.
我们开采砍伐 我们消耗 我们也创造
-Sure we tilt and cut, we rip and we sew.
是的 我们造成了很多破坏
-And yeah, we do great damage. ----.
无论我们认为自己有多聪明
-After all, no matter how smart we think we are
我们也不过是历史的另一部分而已-
we are just another part of history.
保持平衡 让踏板转动起来
-Balance a bike all right. Keep the pedals turning.
这一刻 忘记一切
-Forget about everything except right now.
没什么地方是不能骑自行车的
-And there's no place you can't ride.
这是爷爷曾经说过的话
-That's granddad used to say.
生活就是一种自杀行为 这话说的很对
-I once read that life is an act of suicide. And it's true.
意识到这一点的 大概只有人类
-Probably the only creatures on the planet would notice.
也许这就是为什么我们如此善于杀戮
-Maybe that's why we are so good at killing.
我们终有一天会死 不妨及时行乐
-It's going to die any way, might as well have it first selves.
所以我们就不停的获取
-So we take, we take some more.
但是在我们让其他无形事物逐渐消失的过程中
-But in the process we kill other less tangible entities
比如说某些生命的循环 人的幸福感 人与自然的互动 生存的意义
-things like flow, joy, interaction, purpose
穿越世界的另一条路也随之消失了
-another way through the world has lost.
不是某个特定的人造成的
-Not by one particular person
而是整个人类的本性 生存
-but by instinct, survival
正是人类的生命本身造成的
-the very chaos lifeself.
你花费了太多的时间去思考 去设计 去质疑-
You spend hours thinking, designing, questioning.
其实 你忘记这些只需一瞬间
-Also you can spend a few seconds lost in one moment.
无需思考 顺其自然 全神贯注
-No time to think, just reaction, focus.
一个人所有的烦恼都会在疾驰之中一扫而空
-All the worry in a one washed away by the rush.
当接近尾声
-When it comes to ----
当建造者放下工具拿起战车
-when the builder puts down the shovel and picks up the bike
当创造替代了破坏-
when creation override destruction
这 就是生活-well, that's living.
我依然记得我的第一辆自行车-I still remember my first bike.
耀眼的蓝色喷漆 拥有哈雷一样的弓形车把的完美小车-Perfect little banana ---- with big chopper handle bars, sparkling blue paint,
它带给了我美好的回忆
 -Bright memories came on that miracle ----
依稀记得那从高处冲下的快感-
cruising down from the side block, feeling big.
我那时才7岁
-Even though I was only seven.
世界一下子变得大不一样
-In a second, the world grew exponentially
我们在距离四个街区远的地方发现了一些秘密的胡同
-We found secret back alleys jumped a whole four blocks away.
我们互相碰撞 在胳膊上系上宽大的布带
-We crash, get giant scrips on our arms
用最快的速度比赛冲向街角的商店
-race to the corner store as fast as we could.
糖果从口袋里掉出来 好像逃跑的强盗掉出来的金块儿
-Candy spill our pockets like stolen gold.
在寒来暑往中的一次又一次的骑行 一次又一次的冒险里
 -With every ride, every new adventure with crone wood fade
车子慢慢变得锈迹斑斑
-the rust was creeping at the pain.
其他的小孩开始骑着新车出现 -Other kids was shown with the newer bikes.
我最好的朋友 吉米 买了一辆装有TRED轮胎的BMX
-My best friend Jimmy got a BMX with TRED tires, no funders.
他不准任何人碰他的车
-He can jump at that thing like no body's business.
当我们发现了林道 世界又一次改变了
-Then we found a trial. And the world changed again.
我在森林中穿行 穿梭于树木之间 飞跃沟壑 冒雨飞奔
-We find ourselves deep in the forest, riding over roots, dropping in the galleys, caught in the rain.
车子在更新换代-
New kids were shown with gears, and bigger wheels.
而我对新的装备并没什么热情
-While I'm in troop of my ride, much like the crown in the pain, my affection begin to fade.
父母承诺 当我再大一点 再给我买一辆BMX -
My parents promised me a BMX when I got a little bigger.
但是现在 我的车仍在服役-But for now, chopper would have to do.
有一天 在丛林深处 我的爱车最终报废了-
One day, far gone in the woods, my perfect little banana ---- broken, too.
没法再骑了
-The end of age.
虽然我知道很快我就会有新车的 我还是哭了很久
-I cried for a long time, even know a new bike wasn't far off.
他已经融入我的生命 并且永远如此
-This thing had become a part of me. It still is.
无论我们造物如何精良
-No matter how well we build things
无论我们对其有多么热爱
-no matter how hard we love them
正如世间万物 无论是什么原因
-like everything else, for what ever reason
它们最终都会慢慢离开我们
-they are forth the end to take it all away.
人类只用了200年就发展到了今天
-It's only taken 200 years of ---- to get here.
200年的发明创造 200年的永不言败
-200 years of invention and invention, of not giving up.
设计很复杂 本质却追求简洁
-Complex by design, simple by nature.
单车只不过是一圈一圈的循环往复
-The bike is nothing more than circles turning circles.
人类制造的马达使其显得更为高雅
-It's the human motor that makes it elegant.
但不管单车的发展历程有多么久远
-But no matter how far the bike has come
无论它已经带来了什么
-no matter how many it can already do
前进的步伐却从未停止
-the pushing doesn't stop.
我们尚未到达终点
-We still haven't found the edge.
终有一天 河流汇入海洋 从此它不再是一条河流
-One day the river meets the sea, and it's not a river any more.
它经历的变革的滚滚车轮
-It passed through the wheel of change
尝遍各种经历 故事 冒险 最终走向美好的终点
-in or out of experience, stories, adventure, grand ends.
最终 有了完美的结局
-And have to be the right stops.
消散了 但没有消逝
-Lost but not entirely gone.
目前为止 就我们所知
-For now, as far as we can tell
生命的轮回 其实 永无止境
-The cycle of life, well, it never ends.

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和很多车友一样，想过无数遍这个问题：为什么我们如此喜爱这项运动？不觉得很奇怪吗？好好的汽车不坐，非要骑单车；好好的柏油路不走，非要走泥路。无数次穿越山野和村庄，在村民们异样的眼光中疾驰而过，我总是像落荒而逃。不喜欢那样的眼光，我希望有一天，他们不再对戴头盔骑单车的人大呼小叫，不再说“hello”，平静地对待这一切。
但是对于他们而言，我们确实是一个闯入者。我们厌倦了钢筋水泥，所以来青山绿水中亲近自然；而他们却是厌倦了泥墙褐瓦，渴望着住进高楼大厦中去。人总是想得到自己得不到的不是吗？又是一个“cycle”，轮回。
上几周带着公路车去爬广东第一峰（韶关的南岭森林公园），发现了一条五公里长的山间林荫道，两米宽的黄土小道，两边是笔直高耸的松树，正是山地车发挥作用的好场地。我们兴奋不已，原来以为这样的路在广东已经消失了，盘算着下次要带山地车来好好撒下野，正憧憬着，前面听见轰隆隆的修路声……城市要发展，乡村就会越来越少。要发展，先修路，这是改革开放以来最脍炙人口的名言。和人家要致富奔小康的社会主义理想相比，我们这群吃饱了撑的在城市呆腻了来山里转悠的小资青年真是无比狭隘。只是可怜了那些几十几百年的树，再长起来就不是砍掉的时候这几分钟的事情了；还有那些伤痕累累的山，铲平了还可以再起吗？
中国这么些年的巨变承受了巨大的代价，跃进的发展方式和不平衡的发展速度让每个人都只能看到眼前的利益。谁还管几十年后怎么样？钢筋水泥只是在试探地球的忍耐限度，总有一天这些都会被颠覆。又是一个“cycle”，轮回。

Tired after grocery, I am pretty sure this one will ease my nerves. The movie makes me excited as I have never thought bicycling is a limit sport. I felt a little bit strange to link the bicycle with the life of nature and species. But I did fall into deep thought about the industry innovation.

It is true that human beings are only in this world for a couple thousand years, but changed the entire planet. Why and how would this be happened? Before I have no idea why people like limit sport such as bungee jumping. I thought they are just bored and want something brand new experience. I also believe that scientists are discovering the secret of biotic just for their own interest. But now, I guess that must be driven by the eagerness to know that the limit of the human beings. We are like in a big dark room with only a small candle in the middle. With a limited thing we can see, we are curiously trying to understand everything in the room. People want to know how human can endure under zero gravity. Here comes the bungee. People want to know how the molecule works. Here comes the Nobel Prize winner.

Complex of design, simple of nature. We made everything complexer for the planet but simpler for us own. There is nothing wrong to explore the unknown territory, but we might want to do something before it is too late. Otherwise, our history would just be a glimpse, splendid but sad.

生命是一条河。它终将汇入大海，迎来它的结束，没有什么能够避免这一结局。正因为有一天它将迎来一个毫无意义的终点，过程的美好才显得如此珍贵。在流向终点路上我们将遇见怎么样的人，经历怎么样的惊奇？前方的未知就是生命一切吧。
在我还小的时候，心中充斥着梦想，自己所知道的美好，就一定要实现它 ，我人为这样这样才算是幸福。
但是随着年龄的增长，岁月的风化，我渐渐将梦想逐一忘记。我变得理性，以理性为名，变得畏缩，变得犹豫。我思考，计算，设计，一遍又一遍的纠结于得失，我是如此的忙碌，以至于记不起最初的目标。我所喜爱的一个个因为“不合理”而被放弃，我所厌恶的一个个又因为“合理”、“应当”而沉重地压在肩上。我问我自己：“你为什么而活呢？”我回答道：“你真傻呢，明明先有你自己活着这个事实，你才在这里胡想！”那么既然根本不知道为什么而活，一天到晚所忙碌的事情都又有什么意义？你都在做什么？？
能不能有一天，在历经疲惫的思考，设计，计算，提问之后，我能够沉醉于一个瞬间，不再有时间思考，只有高度紧张而兴奋而快乐的刺激，用速度把一切烦恼一切忧虑全部冲走，尽情地燃烧自己的生命？
能不能有一天，我毫不顾虑的冲过那些枷锁，不再压抑不再矜持，狠狠地压碎路上的碎石，激起水花，扬起尘土，在背后留下无法磨灭的痕迹？
能不能有一天，我能够不再活在范式中，不再活在他人的思想的枷锁中，不问快乐或者痛苦都能欢欣鼓舞，不再用自己如此有限的美好的生命过别人的人生？
能不能有一天，当我病痛、磨损，孤独的舔着自己的伤口的时候可以感叹：“啊，虽然我要死了，但是我没有早早的死去，我奋斗过，燃烧过，我死在胜利的终点上！我是多么的幸运!”

“Forget about everything except right now, and there's no place you cannot ride”

曾经并不理解极限运动者，为什么要冒着生命危险从事哪些根本没有“收益”的东西？
现在，看着他们的激情，他们的沉醉，他们忘记一切的燃烧，不知不觉的泪流满面，相比之下，你可曾真正的活着？你计算的太多了，生命看起来那样复杂，本质却是如此的简洁，前方的路无法计算，无法预测，既然这样，为何不忘记前方的枝杈泥水妨碍，尽管去追随你的内心？

Life cycles，其实无关单车，绮丽的远景，集中于地表的镜头，流逝的岁月，传递的是生命的活法。

“One day, the river meets the sea, and then it’s not a river any more. It has passed though the wheel of change, experience, stories and venture. Grand dance, inavoidbally, the ride stops, lost but not entirely gone. For now, as far as we can tell, the cycle of life, well, it never ends”