MeditationMan wrote:

"Bike trailers to relieve road-congestion for charity food deliveries"

Volunteer members of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association, a
hobby group, invite all cyclists with bike trailers to help deliver
surplus food donated by Patisserie Saint Honore, Fratelli's Bakery,
and Drive Organics on 19 September 2003, 6pm. (Also every 3rd Friday
of the month thereafter.)

Volunteer cyclists meet at Britannia Community Centre at Commercial
Drive & Napier Streets. Food donations will be taken to Union Gospel
Church.

Help reduce road congestion on Commercial Drive. Cyclists will deliver
donated food to charities without adding to greenhouse gases. Up to
100 lbs. of groceries can be loaded into bicycles and bike trailers
and carried uphill easily.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. That's what you exhale.

A 100 lb load makes all uphills 50% steeper, in effect. I pull 160lbs of
softener salt home every few months and it's a huge effect. An uphill you
don't even notice becomes a long grind. A real hill is granny gear time.

Since trailers stick out into traffic, they impede traffic considerably
compared to a bicycle, which tucks out of traffic very neatly; or a car,
which fits right in. And a trailer is mostly going really slowly.

In short, it's a really stupid idea.

On the other hand, the current theory is that global warming is out and
climate variability is in. This means, roughly, the destruction of coral
reefs, and weeds where you want grass.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.