Originally Posted by
lhbernhardt
I see they're just now starting to charge for secure bike parking & showers, and I can see it getting worse as numbers reach a "critical mass." But for now, I can still "screw the system," defeat the corporate transportation infrastructure.
Really? Where are "they" charging cyclists for secure bike parking & showers or using the "corporate transportation infrastructure?"
Originally Posted by
lhbernhardt
Like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, I can use the existing infrastructure for free, avoiding the frustrating gridlock of being one bit in a serial synchronous half-duplex communications model (and once downtown, the stream gets packetized by the stoplights). Allegorically, bikes operate at a measly 300 baud, but it's all full duplex and parallel!
I think you are thinking too hard about this; relax, you are riding a dang bike and it is NOT rocket science.
Originally Posted by
lhbernhardt
I remember seeing a survey of bike commuters, done back in the 70's (I recall John Forester mentioned it), and most bike commuters of the time were engineers and technical people, folks who think about how to make things better. I don't think you see too many stupid people riding bikes; those people are still stuck in their cars because that's the way it's always been done, and they can't think beyond that.
I suggest you think more about what you are writing on this subject and try not so hard to emulate an elitist, club cycling thought process based on bogus "studies."
Originally Posted by
lhbernhardt
And beyond that, I just love being on the bike, regardless of weather or time of day.
Good thinking!