The bicycle wins
03-26-08, 09:00 PM
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This has absolutely nothing to do with bikes winning, but bragi; nice chemistry joke in your signature.
03-27-08, 10:49 AM
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Dance or bike, hmmmm
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If anyone here is a fan of Top Gear and would like to see all of the 10 season's episodes, shoot me a PM and I'll send you a place to see/download them.
03-29-08, 04:29 AM
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I've replicated this experiment several times. Even in a smallish city like Lansing, I've beaten buses several times, and I'll usually tie a car if traffic's heavy. The car beats me in light traffic, but not by as much as they think they will. And of course I'll win if they have to stop for gas. 
Of course I'd love to try a speedboat in the Red Cedar and Grand Rivers!
Of course I'd love to try a speedboat in the Red Cedar and Grand Rivers!
A lot has to do with our idiotic traffic lights that are not sycrnoized, so all cars stop-go-stop-go through town. What an enormous waste of fuel just because our city traffic department can't figure out how to syncronize the stop lights.
03-29-08, 12:17 PM
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Then again, this is Top Gear, and like most car shows exotica is always a premium.
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03-31-08, 01:19 PM
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Same here. On a 12 mile commute accross town, I can get there about the same amount of time as a car or maybe 5 minutes later.
A lot has to do with our idiotic traffic lights that are not sycrnoized, so all cars stop-go-stop-go through town. What an enormous waste of fuel just because our city traffic department can't figure out how to syncronize the stop lights.
A lot has to do with our idiotic traffic lights that are not sycrnoized, so all cars stop-go-stop-go through town. What an enormous waste of fuel just because our city traffic department can't figure out how to syncronize the stop lights.
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04-02-08, 05:24 PM
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04-05-08, 09:07 AM
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The best solution is a "green wave" traffic light system that's timed to favor bicycles.
Thanks. That Green Wave, for bicycle riders is neat. In fact, after seeing the video, I am not sure how it works or what it does, but I am all for it anyway, if for no other reason than to add more pretty lights to the streets.
Of equal interest was the photo and video streams of the twenty-something's of Denmark which was found on the same website page. My compliments to whoever went through the trouble of putting all those photos and vids together.
Anyway, it starts out with bicycles, which is good, then you have scenes of young life in Denmark. Lots of fun it seems. They have lots of girls who are average looking or maybe even a little bit better than average looking, but the Danish men figured out that they can enhance the beauty of the women by drinking beer, beer, beer, beer, beer! Man, every photo and vid had beer in it (and it looks like very good beer)!
And the girls are kissing everybody.
Wow, Denmark! Bicycles, beer, kissing girls, beer, smiling, joking, funny language. Let's go!
