Due to a friend's reckless tweeting, I've just been introduced to the Yowamushi Pedal [
Wikipedia] anime:
Since he was a little boy, Onoda has ridden his mamachari ("City Bike" AKA "Mommy Bike" in the anime) – a bulky bicycle with a step-through frame mainly used for short rides, such as for casual fun, to pick up groceries or to go to Akihabara every week to check out or buy otaku things. His fellow freshman, Shunsuke Imaizumi, a cyclist, while training, notices Onoda riding his mamachari up a steep road.
Onoda's blissfully ignorant about the world of Capital-C-Cycling, but gradually gets sucked into road racing.
I'm smitten by the sequence in
Episode 4 where he discovers the potential of the extra gear a classmate added for him:
...Unfortunately for Onoda-kun, his next learning point is headwinds. Life's a b*tch, ain't it?
Anyway, should you wish to see more, you can start here:
http://onepieceofbleach.com/yowamushi-pedal-episode-1/
