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folder fanatic
10-28-09, 01:28 PM
I am hoping that the venerable bike is next for a good ol' US stimulus boost. The street legal golf cart has it's own stimulus boost. Why not our favorite way to get around-a nice new bike of your choice. The UK has it's own form of this I think.

See For Yourselves:

Story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/golf-car-sales-spike-08-bailout/story?id=8875161 (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/golf-car-sales-spike-08-bailout/story?id=8875161)
(Note: Don't miss the video clip "Signs Of The Stimulus Wasting" on the side of the article on wasting tax payer's money.)

Video:
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=8934429

gerv
10-28-09, 01:36 PM
Why would the bicycle industry need a bailout? I thought bicycle sales have been going through the roof over the last 3 years.

I would agree that there should be some sort of incentive for people to get out on bicycles, particularly since it would reduce wear and tear on the road system... along with savings for the health care system.

However, I think rather than trying to boost sales, a better stimulus would be to provide a little more bicycling infrastructure support, so that those buying bikes would feel safer travelling on those bikes.
Artkansas
10-29-09, 01:34 PM
However, I think rather than trying to boost sales, a better stimulus would be to provide a little more bicycling infrastructure support, so that those buying bikes would feel safer travelling on those bikes.


Time to work with your DOT to make sure that highway funds get used for bicycles.

cerewa
10-29-09, 08:02 PM
However, I think rather than trying to boost sales, a better stimulus would be to provide a little more bicycling infrastructure support, so that those buying bikes would feel safer travelling on those bikes.

Yeah, what we don't want is a bunch of unwanted, subsidized bikes collecting rust and wasting storage space. Bikes are cheap, but good bicycle roads, less so.
mike
10-30-09, 10:03 PM
The best stimulus bicycling could get is if the government used fuel taxes to pay down all the crazy spending they are doing now.

The price of gasoline would go so high that even one legged people and the infirmed would be bicycling.