Mormons Have Their Own Bikes?

A church recent­ly vol­un­teered to pur­chase bicy­cles for Paula and I. That’s a super-prac­ti­cal way to sup­port our min­istry since the cam­pus is so vast!

Any­way, the pas­tor asked me to research bicy­cles and let him know what we need­ed.

All the bicy­cle sites online seemed to be focus­ing on upper-end triathalon-type bikes, which just aren’t what we need. So I start­ed think­ing about it, and I real­ized that Mor­mon mis­sion­ar­ies prob­a­bly know more about the type of bicy­cles we’re look­ing at than any­one else.

So I decid­ed to do some research, and I was amused to find that there is a com­pa­ny that makes spe­cial­ty Mor­mon mis­sion­ary bicy­cles. In fact, that’s all that they sell–and no one except Mor­mon mis­sion­ar­ies can pur­chase them.

I love this quote: As for theft, long a prob­lem for mis­sion­ar­ies, Spence notes: “If you see a hip­pie guy with long hair rid­ing a Lia­hona down the street, and he does­n’t have a shirt and tie on, you know the bike’s not his.”

I knew that the Mor­mons have spe­cial Mor­mon under­gar­ments (which I under­stand Sen­a­tor Orrin Hatch wears), but I had no idea they had spe­cial bikes as well!