In the beginning, a bicycle was a bicycle. Then, when it transpired that cycling was the only thing sitting at the intersections of the “what I like” and “what I’m decent at” Venn Diagrams, I started thinking about getting my ‘forever bike’. Not long thereafter, I found Scarab Cycles.

And so it was that I went to Medellìn, Colombia, to pick up my new bike and, in so doing, get to know a new country.