Just about anyone can cycle 12 miles and with traffic backed up

from the tsunami, a bike may be they only way to save your life.



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not nearly as useful as feet, and almost everyone has those.



Rather more useful than feet, generally. My feet don't work very well

(or rather they're attached to knees that don't work very well). Now I

live far from the coast and probably won't have to flee a tsunami any

time soon, but faced with gridlock and an urgent need to be ten miles

away I'd make much better progress on a bike than I would walking.

Plus I can load more on a bike than I can easily carry.





That would all depend upon having a nice even level road.

Roads don't disappear before a tsunami hits. The problem is the roads will be so clogged with traffic nothing will move.

Most cannot lift a motorcycle or even a moped over fences, walls and all the abandoned motor vehicles on the roads.

The _only_ solution for those who cannot run 12 miles in 1 hour or so is a bicycle.

In the event

of disaster neither of those are likely, whereas feet can climb over

things very easily and going up hill (necessary to escape tidal waves )

is quite natural and simple on foot.

Feet will be necessary but not sufficient.

I would imagine that poor quality

knee joints are not too hot for cycling in any case.

A tennis nut would cycle to make his knees feel better. He refused to get a knee replacement because you can't really play tennis on artificial knees..

Studies show wounds heal faster with exercise.


Bret Cahill