I'm sure there are plenty of people who get ridiculed for riding their bike to work- by chubby coworkers who never walk more than a block, smoke like chimneys and eat junk food. We all have heard about how when lance armstrong was in highschool, his classmates thought he was weird for riding his bike to school. And they're probably mostly overweight slobs by now.
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You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. That's great...if you want to attract vermin.