tis really makes me mad
 

watching cars hauling expensive bikes on the back bike rack instead of riding the darn bikes like they were meant. if your gonna own a thousand dollar bike why haul it all over with a darn crappy car. god it burns me up we are such a automobile dependent society. that why obesity is so out of control

Don't get too upset. There's nothing wrong with transporting a bike with a car. It's not for anyone to judge how others use their bikes but the owners themselves.

I can understand if you're dropping your bike off somewhere, or if you're going a fair distance with a lot of stuff, but otherwise, just ride the damn thing.

For instance, I plan on hauling my bike about 150 miles away this summer...but I'm also bringing 120 lbs of dogs, enough clothes to get me through 6 weeks worth of summer camp, two aquariums and a stereo. If I could figure out how to haul ALL of that stuff on a bike and not want to kill myself on the smallest of hills, I would; however, there's a reason for those technological advancements. I figure that since I use my car 50 miles a month or less, I'm entitled to use it when I need to.

It really makes me mad when people think they need to take a stereo to a camp instead of listening t the sounds of nature. If your going to own a stereo why haul it to camp with a crappy car, it burns me up we are such a stereo dependant society.
:)

Have YOU ever tried to get a dozen middle-schoolers interested in cleaning a cabin? Times like that, rock is just about the only way to do it. Besides, I'm giving the stereo to my sister after camp, so it'd have to get there one way or another ;)

I don't want to haul my bike on the car rack because if someone rearends me there goes the bike. It allways goes in the back seat when I take it to LBS to change the chain or something.

How else do you get home or to work after dropping the car off for service?

Paul

When I see a nice bike riding a car rack I don't get angry, I just laugh at the guy driving.

Maybe you just need to lighten up?

Does it also upset you to see bikes on a bus? If they have their bike loaded on their car, chances are they're using it at some point.

having driven many, many thousands of miles with my car in a rack, I'd have to say this is one of the stranger things to worry about. Now, when the driver of a car with a rack full of bikes lays on the horn like you don't belong there, that's something to get upset about.

1. It would be really hard to ride the bike the 100 miles to my summer house after work on Friday.

2. Sometimes I feel dumb for doing this, but on any given "riding" day, I have a choice of spending the first hour riding through choking diesel exhaust, double-parked cars, and several housing projects, or spending the first hour of my ride on low-volume, almost rural, tree-lined roads with several good climbs, after driving 20 or 30 miles north. The local racer boys would never consider doing anything other than riding to the country. But I'm not a racer boy, and really have no real intention of becoming one. If that offends you, too damn bad.

roflmao !!

Okay, I ride with my bike on the car often. Here's when I do it...

Monday mornings, bike on car and into work. Car stays in the company garage with my dress clothes in it. Friday afternoons, back home (stopping at dry cleaners)

Occasionally on the weekends. When there is no wind, i prefer to drive to the lake rather than ride. On stagnant days, there are CLOUDS of gnats on the route to and from. I hate gnats. Why put myself through that when i have a perfectly good car.

What if the person in the next camp over doesn't want to hear rock?

Do you get my point though? How do you know those people hauling their bikes maybe just bought them and are taking them home, or somehting else like that. People are way to quick to assume the worst. I made the assumption that your stereo/rock will bother the people in the camp beside you to illustrate.

I think the answers in this thread will have shown you the silliness of your assumptions about why that bike is on that rack. If they haven't, they should have. Ride your own ride, mind your own business and stop making up stories about why other people are doing what they're doing; just because you can't instantly think of a good reason to do it, doesn't mean a good reason doesn't exist.

http://www.culver.org/index.php?opti...363&Itemid=513

IT's a summer camp for kids. 99% of the cabin counselors do the same.

And you know what they say about ASSumptions...Sounds to me like the OP is a pissant, but you know, to each his own.

OP - life must be pretty good if that's high on the list of your complaints, eh?

I've been riding my bike to and from work nearly ever day for 6 years now. Since our son began day care last August, I now throw my bike on the car at the end of my afternoon ride home and go pick him up. So, I'm sure people think I'm just driving my bike around to show it off, however, I am really hard core. :-)

Anecdote. Over the summer my lower ball joint separated on my car, requiring a weekend stay at the shop. I rode my bike in Monday morning to talk to the mechanic about getting it done and to approve the charges. Monday afternoon it was done. My choices were ride the bike home from campus/work, and get a ride to the shop, or to ride my bike to the shop, strap it on the back, and drive home, inconveniencing no one but me.

When I was driving to Boston last summer, I saw more bikes on carriers than I could have eve fathomed. My assumption was that they were vacationers/travelers who wanted to bike once they got to their destination.

Obesity is caused by soft food at least according to this guy.
http://www.economist.com/science/dis...ry_id=13139619

Excuse my digression. This is a bizarre post. Of all the things the horrible things that people do in our society this is what burns you up? Seriously, horrible things happen everyday; defenseless people are abused, children are neglected. Just trying to inject some perspective here.

I think you're not thinking the whole thing out. I bike commute, but live 70 miles from work, so I put mine on the rack on the car and drive part way. I do that almost every day. Does that mean I'm an obese lazy cyclist?

In the same generalization, you sir, are a troll :P

I was intentionally trying to make a wild assumption so show its no different than makng the same kind of assumption about bikes on racks.

;) I know.

Bikes on the back of cars? I kind of think: Get on your bike and ride, fool! Pump those crazy legs!! :D

Maybe the bike is tired. Ever think of that?