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Red Cloud writes:

U.S.A and bicycle??? They don't go together. We are talking about
the nation of the NASCAR psycho, Whitepenis power, noisy Harley
motorcycle moron. If not, what, liberals love bike???
Give me a ****ing break! People in Whitepenis NASCAR nation do not
like a bike. That is the fact. These people simply is not custom to
ride a bike. They hate bike. How many of them
ride a bike as a primary transport? Less than 1%. At least 20% of
Europeans used bike as
the primary trasport. The number is high in Holland. There are more
bikes in Holland than
the population. Who are these folks talk about bike in Whitepenis
culture? They are not real biker. Their primary transportation is
SUV. The bike for them is just a leisure sport, not a main
transportation. In Whitepenis NASCAR culture, you have to homeless to
be a biker. Moreover,
there is no bike street in NASCAR culture because most streets are for
NASCAR copied drivers.
There are more anger and temper expressed in these NASCAR addicted
people. These people just can't drive fast enough...

Y'know, when we cut through all your hyperbole,
you've got a point in there somewhere.

But there is a growing movement toward bicycles as
{\strikethrough serious} /practical/ transportation
in North America. People here indeed are catching
onto the idea.

Heck, even the primarily sporting riders like to take
advantage of opportunities to do errand runs by bicycle.

For a country you purport to be so anti-bicycle, the
USA has sure has a history of making lots of them,
and for domestic (non-export) sale.

Yes, bicycling in North America endures a lot of
bigoted, ignorant attitude (especially for
recumbentists, who get it from both sides.)
But it's not as bad as you imply.

The problem with North American culture isn't
NASCAR -- it's The Clock. Every second that
ticks by, brings us a step closer to our ultimate
demise. Cars are supposed to save a bunch of
those precious seconds for us, but they don't.
People have to give their employers a gajillion
of their precious seconds to make enough money
to support & maintain their cars. Then there's
the time spent in the quest for parking spots,
traffic jams, delays caused by street construction
or repairs, fender-benders and stalls.

Time is our most precious commodity. Cars are
supposed to mitigate wasted time, but they so
often fail miserably at that endeavour.

My ol' friend, Bill The Hippie, traveled the world
and informed me of his insight: in the East, it's
all about religion & spiritually-enhancing substances.
In the West, it's all about work & booze. Maybe we
of Western/North American culture have a screwed-up
notion of the value of our time, and where & how to
invest it. I guess that's why so many people hope
for an afterlife -- they just want more time -- time
they can use, time to themselves. As the song title
says: "I Wish I Was In Heaven, Sitting Down."

To borrow the tag-line of The Comedy Network, riding
a bike is time well wasted. I guess driving a car is
just wasted time.

Every moment of our lives counts. I sure as hell ain't
gonna spend my money on a time-wasting machine.

So the evils of Western society aren't The Car and NASCAR.
They're the exploitive employer, the alarm clock, and
the overindulgence of the wrong stuff. And disposable
over-packaging. And the use of the word: "demographic"
in gov't agencies & bureaucracies.


cheers,
Tom

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