On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:42:10 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote:

On 30/09/2014 17:56, Rob Morley wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:30:28 +0100 Mrcheerful
wrote:

On 30/09/2014 06:58, Bret Cahill wrote:
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. 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. I would imagine that poor quality
knee joints are not too hot for cycling in any case.

Biking is very good for arthritic knees. Such a person can often travel
rapidly and relatively comfortably on a bike, where walking would be
agony.