The billboard on the bike shop says, A bike ride can fix anything.  

Ummm… close.  I like the saying, of course, because a bike ride fixes a lot for me.  It fixes obesity, it fixes my enjoyment of food, it fixes my melon committee, and bikes definitely assuage my need for a midlife crisis hobby (a bike ride ticks every box).  There are things a bike ride can’t fix though.

A bike ride can’t fix stupid, that’s for sure, and there seems to be more than enough of that to go around lately.

A bike ride can’t fix cancer, but it sure will help on the front end.  A bike ride can’t fix Alzheimer’s, again, except on the front end…

Nuances aside, I look at what is right in the notion that a bike ride can fix anything:

A bike ride will definitely fix a bad day, there’s no doubt about that.