I found the answer to interest normal people in bicycles.
03-21-10, 04:02 PM
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03-21-10, 04:29 PM
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The most common question I get when people hear I ride and commute to work by bike is:
" Have you ever been hit by a car?" or "Isn't riding with traffic deadly?"
Secondly I don't know what kind of math you all use but the food intake alone offsets any gas savings I could hope for.
03-21-10, 04:32 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
The biggest spike in ridership I have seen in the past 5 years was when fuel prices hit 1.30 / litre... a lot of folks dusted off their old bikes and we had a run on 26 by 1 3/8 and 27 inch tyres at the co-op.
The increase in the number of daily cyclists has been enough for our city to increase the amount they put into cycling infrastructure from 1% to 5% of the transportation budget.
Ridership is just above 1% but they were convinced that increasing the funding to 5% would bring those numbers up and even with our weather being cold the number of cyclists riding has been astonishing this year.
The increase in the number of daily cyclists has been enough for our city to increase the amount they put into cycling infrastructure from 1% to 5% of the transportation budget.
Ridership is just above 1% but they were convinced that increasing the funding to 5% would bring those numbers up and even with our weather being cold the number of cyclists riding has been astonishing this year.
03-21-10, 05:30 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
When I stopped driving calculated that I was saving over $8000.00 a year in vehicular costs and was one of the fittest 42 year olds on the planet... I could knock down a sub hour 40 on a whim and could dead lift nearly 300 pounds and tossed around pieces of steel that weighed nearly as much as I did on a daily basis.
03-21-10, 06:19 PM
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03-21-10, 08:09 PM
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I would guess that 1/3 of the mileage I rack up on my car every year is driving to and from races and group rides. So much for my cycling making the world a greener place eh?
03-21-10, 08:25 PM
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after my post. It was a total "americanization" of the sport. And a huge bust it was.My favorite memory of the NCL was seeing Peter O'Neill sneak out of the hotel in Monte Carlo without paying the league's $25,000 tab. Two days later, Jeff Rutter tries to check out of the hotel after spending a couple of extra days with his wife in Monaco. The gendarmes haul him into the office and demand that he pay the bill. I don't know how he got out of it, but he did.
That whole summer was a mess.
I'd vote for this AND the corresponding tax hike.
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03-21-10, 08:52 PM
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Ah, I see. I would have chosen a keyword and made it a link to something about the organization I was mocking. I actually heard rumors about someone I raced with getting signed with the LA Wings and it made me laugh.
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