On 24/02/2011 18:22, Tony Raven wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the
attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking
atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping
our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being
chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the
hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that,
over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville.
Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.
~P.J. O'Rourke

P J O'Rourke is a well known American SATIRIST* best know for his role with
National Lampoon and books such as "Give War a Chance". Which makes you
quoting him in supposed support of your cause rather hilarious.

* Sati A poem, or in modern use sometimes a prose composition, in which
prevailing vices or follies are held up to ridicule. (OED)

Do satirists *never* attempt to make a serious point?