I spoke to LeBron James about bicycles on Friday.

This was a few hours before President Trump decided to go onto Twitter to challenge James’s intellect, which was more than a little absurd. James is not a Trump fan—to say the least—but this was a week in which the NBA superstar helped open a brand-new public school for at-risk children in his Akron, Ohio, hometown, pledging a University of Akron scholarship to every student who graduates.

I mean, I guess we could talk more about the tweet. But I’d rather eat a bag of rocks. Let’s talk about bikes, shall we?

I’d wanted to talk to James for a long time about cycling. Readers of this column know I am a massive bike dork, and I’ve known the three-time NBA champion likes to ride—James has been spied commuting to games on his mountain bike, and in summers past, he’s hosted bike-a-thons in Ohio. At one point he even owned a stake in the bicycle maker Cannondale.

But last week’s school opening was perhaps the biggest signal of what bikes mean to James’s life. In the announcement for The “I Promise” School—which will admit 240 third- and fourth-grade students and expand until it stretches from first to eighth grade—was this detail: James’s family foundation has pledged to provide a free bicycle and helmet to every student.