"Divorcing Your Car................" by katie alvord
09-23-11, 02:53 AM
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"Divorcing Your Car................" by katie alvord
Somebody in this forum recommended this book.
There's an interesting section in here about a guy who makes bike houses.
That's what I need. I don't know where I'd park it to sleep, and it might be too hot to sleep in it during the day [I work overnight]. So I don't know if it would be compatible to my lifestyle to start living in a bike-house. It sounds fun. Maybe I could quit my job since I wouldn't have to pay rent.
What I found surprising was that the bikes have 135 gears, can carry 500 pounds, and will go as fast as a racebike. hmmmnnnn.
https://culturechange.org/issue11/bri...house-bike.htm
There's an interesting section in here about a guy who makes bike houses.
That's what I need. I don't know where I'd park it to sleep, and it might be too hot to sleep in it during the day [I work overnight]. So I don't know if it would be compatible to my lifestyle to start living in a bike-house. It sounds fun. Maybe I could quit my job since I wouldn't have to pay rent.
What I found surprising was that the bikes have 135 gears, can carry 500 pounds, and will go as fast as a racebike. hmmmnnnn.
https://culturechange.org/issue11/bri...house-bike.htm
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It takes a pretty special set of circumstances to live car free in America.
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I don't see this going as fast as a sub 20 pound race bike.
I would not care to be on or in it in any kind of wind.
Nor do I see that being pedaled anywhere other than from one side of a pancake flat parking lot to the other, 135 gears or no.
09-23-11, 07:36 AM
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I was intrigued, so I checked online to see if I could find more information. The newest thing I found was something from 2004. Someone was saying that they had checked the web and it appeared that the person making these had gone out of business.
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