Originally Posted by fender1
I, after biking to work for more than a year, am still ridiculed by co-workers, whenever they get the chance. Now you can spend a good amount of energy trying to figure out why they feel so threatened by it, but I feel on some very basic level it is deemed, as has been desribed to me "uncool", for "geeks" "nerds", you get the point. At its most basic, rejecting an automobile as the only/best option in a culture that is centered around automobiles, puts you outside the herd. When something is different people tend to attack first and ask questions later.
While you may not think so your co-workers (and others) are afraid of you and the future you
represent. At a basic gut level these people know the handwritting is on the wall but can't bear
to "see" it yet. You remind them that they,too, will soon be on a bike or using mass transit.
It's no wonder your not to "popular"!!
