Originally Posted by genec

ILTB is a bit of a technological luddite and a curmudgeon... He has ridden a bike for transportation in a variety of locations including Germany, and he has a regular route for which he has customized a bike to fit his commute... he does indeed "rely on a bike for transportation."

But ILTB fails to jump on the bandwagon of what may be "the lastest fad" whether it really does benefit cyclists or not, and at times ILTB has a hard time envisioning that cycling in a dynamic modern city for dynamic young people may entail such things beyond riding the same old route daily.

ILTB does serve to ground us sometimes in fits of taking a look at reality, but his overall style is that of the old man saying "eh, done that sonny... whatcha think, you invented it?"

He probably still uses the same old map that he drew with an old Bic pen to reach the destinations that are important to him... and out in Iowa, things tend to move at a pace where that works just fine.