I bought my place with that very prospect in mind. I can do my vital errands by bicycle on roads with very little car traffic. For roads with cars you need to be able to get the hell out of their way. Even My Harleys are fast enough for that.
Posted on 07/23/2010 11:17:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I bought my place with that very prospect in mind. I can do my vital errands by bicycle on roads with very little car traffic. For roads with cars you need to be able to get the hell out of their way. Even My Harleys are fast enough for that.
This is praeteritio
I am safe and considerate and annoyed by joy-riders out clogging the roadways.
I guess that makes me a pompous ass.
Lance Armstrong would probably stay on the shoulder. He wouldn’t be chatting with his pudgy friend riding two abreast on a state highway.
I don’t hate bikes, just venting on the green holier-than-thou no carbon footprint dorks.
Good for you. My only complaint with bicycle riders is when they ride down the middle of the road. Let me explain. Where I live has a private road. Bicycle riders who don't live here, not that it matters, ride in the middle of the lane and won't pull over for traffic. This pisses me off.
“500,000 Americans commute by bicycle.”
For a while, in nice weather.
Not 52 weeks a year!
Obviously I was fit enough back in the day but I could never figure out where to put 1,000 lb’s of carpentry tools on a bicycle for the 40 mile round trip to work.
In the Portland Metro area, we are building new bike paths as we speak, even though we can’t afford it. The reason being that IIRC correctly, Minneapolis was recently named as the bike path capital of the US...taking over Portland’s # 1 spot. Can’t have that happening!
Have you ever driven down a road without a bike path, see a biker in your lane, and want to open the passenger door as you pass said biker?
Happens to me all of the time.
I guess you just don’t love Mother Earth enough! /s
In English please.
Political uncorrectness my man; you and I need to get with the program.
I’m sure you can haul hay and cattle and fertilizer with a rickshaw if you put your mind to it.
Pardon me if If I don't give that a try. A truck is better suited to the purpose.
Regards Bart.
To mention something by way of saying that you won’t mention it. You said you couldn’t comment on Mark Cavendish ... so why did you?
As long as I'm in confession mode; I really enjoyed cutting up tens of thousands of board feet of dead trees. I did. It was a kick.
It seems to me I didn't. The question remains. Who is he and why should I care? Now I have made a comment.
You have only reiterated what you had already made clear by praeteritio.
Knocking off a few fur bearing animals is also fun as well. I don't think that will get me invited to Greenpeace or The Sierra Club however. I'll get past that.
Whatever you say.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned that when we ride to work (instead of driving), we are avoiding funding those loonies in a far away land who want to kill us all.
Just a week ago I saw an idiot on a bike run a Red light in front of a Ford truck. The truck driver had to throw on his brakes and swerve to miss the idiot. Idiots on bikes make great smears. Get your child’s toy off the road.
Well, all I can say was when I was younger I loved to bicycle. Now my knees aren’t so good, and I can’t, and I wish I could once again. I have a lovely park right next to where I live, and I would dearly love to ride through it. There is that sense of exhilaration I get from riding in the open air, unencumbered, and one with nature. It was the same feeling I got when young, and had motorcycles. Same feeling of freedom, as ephemeral as that may have been.
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