Originally Posted by Bekologist
Come ON, now!
Temperance and bicycling were once closely wedded in America, didn't cha know, I-Like-to-Bike? I think Carrrie Nation had a tall wheeler.
It was the early granolas, the American health movement -
back when people would teetotal, but could subscribe to a regimen of landalum laced tonics.
But bikes and the temperance movement were definetly kissing cousins. Not that I endorse any such nonsense.
Unfortunately, today adult bicyclists in the US are often associated (to the non cyclists) as masochistic pleasure seekers (i.e. pain-
IS-gain training regimens/scorning of comfort or material assets) or aesthetes with a holier than thou mission to smite the lowlifes of car culture.