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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n Every Sunday, Mexico City shuts down the Paseo de la Reforma, the most important street in the country, to car traffic. <\/p>\n That means that each week more than 100,000 people get on bikes and skates and rollerblades to roll past some of the most iconic parts of Mexico’s capital city.<\/p>\n It is my favorite weekly ritual in a city full of rituals, because it showcases the enormity and diversity of this city. <\/p>\n I’ve seen gangs of clowns and gaggles of vatos<\/em><\/a> on lowrider bikes<\/a>. You see families and runners and older ladies dancing Zumba in the shadow of the Angel of Independence statue. The city and its tribes are on full display. <\/p>\n