Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!

"donquijote1954" wrote in message
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trino wrote:
That is the most unique collection of bicycle seats I have ever seen.
Like the italian in particular.

Dunno what collection you are talking about, but here is a comment on
recumbents which surely got the most comfortable seat... I bet

It was here under saddles. there are three categories,
comfort was the one I was looking at.
Bicycle Saddles
http://www.bikemania.biz/Bicycle_Saddles_s/55.htm

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"Arif Khokar" wrote in message
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John S. wrote:
An interesting but very incomplete analysis of the true costs of
commuting by bike.

Take the average commuter that lives 20 miles from work. To make an
8-4 work schedule that commuter will have to get up at 4:00 to begin
riding at 5:00 to arrive at work by 8:00.


What? The Tour de France averages 25 mph. Why can't we all do that?



They also in a huge pack, much easied to ride 25 in the middle of a pack.

They have the Alps and Pirinees (===Cant Spell)

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wrote:
Bill Sornson wrote:
wrote:

I'm in Maryland for the summer but I spend most of the year living
on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. If it its only 100
degrees I'm cool and comfy and still biking.

Where in MD? I grew up in Silver Spring and lived in the DC area
all my life until moving to CA in '82. (Aaack, it's almost 50-50
now!)

I don't go back often (no family left), but when I do I'm always
shocked how GREEN it is! LoSoCal is /brown/...

Baltimore area.

Sorry to hear that. eg

(Guess the ol' Washington-Baltimore rivalry is still alive in me!)

Bill "only place I ever saw live gun fire on the streets was Baltimore" S.

Bill Sornson wrote:
wrote:

I'm in Maryland for the summer but I spend most of the year living on
Hainan Island in the South China Sea. If it its only 100 degrees I'm
cool and comfy and still biking.

Where in MD? I grew up in Silver Spring and lived in the DC area all my
life until moving to CA in '82. (Aaack, it's almost 50-50 now!)

I don't go back often (no family left), but when I do I'm always shocked how
GREEN it is! LoSoCal is /brown/...

Bill "DC & CA: no wonder I'm goofy" S.




Hmmm, lets see now... 2006 minus 1982, times two... ;-)


You're only as old as you feel!


Paul D Oosterhout
(from SAIC)

trino wrote:
"donquijote1954" wrote in message
oups.com...

trino wrote:
That is the most unique collection of bicycle seats I have ever seen.
Like the italian in particular.

Dunno what collection you are talking about, but here is a comment on
recumbents which surely got the most comfortable seat... I bet

It was here under saddles. there are three categories,
comfort was the one I was looking at.
Bicycle Saddles
http://www.bikemania.biz/Bicycle_Saddles_s/55.htm

Good variety. I tried first the sportier seats but it was a pain in the
ass, then the comfort that wouldn't let me pedal, and finally the Easy
Seat, which solved the problem. A bit of sliding forward but I stop it
by keeping my hands firmly on the grip or bar ends.

Paul O wrote:
Bill Sornson wrote:
wrote:

I'm in Maryland for the summer but I spend most of the year living
on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. If it its only 100
degrees I'm cool and comfy and still biking.

Where in MD? I grew up in Silver Spring and lived in the DC area
all my life until moving to CA in '82. (Aaack, it's almost 50-50
now!) I don't go back often (no family left), but when I do I'm always
shocked how GREEN it is! LoSoCal is /brown/...

Bill "DC & CA: no wonder I'm goofy" S.




Hmmm, lets see now... 2006 minus 1982, times two... ;-)


You're only as old as you feel!

I'm 93?!? Aaack.


Paul D Oosterhout
(from SAIC)

Know Lenny Caro?

"donquijote1954" wrote:

A new bunch of trolls.

Don't feed the troll, folks. I know you think you can out-reason this
one (no doubt true) but it's like the proverb about teaching a pig to
sing.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
Bill said in rec.autos.driving:

My sister lives
in a planned community on the outskirts of Phoenix and she has never
mentioned even one house having any solar panels or water heating thee.

Drive outside of town a bit, where the non-terraformed desert is, and
you'll see them all over the place. Desert land is cheap, so people
buy 5-acre lots out in the boonies so far that there is no
electricity, gas, or city water, so they put up a roof full of solar
cells, a couple of giant water tanks to collect rainwater that flows
off the roof, and drill a nice deep well. Believe it or not, some of
these solar power systems can even run an air conditioner if your
house has enough insulation.

$30,000 worth of equipment will make you pretty much independent of
the power grid AND the city water supply.

My sister would love to do it but they already have a crime problem in a
walled community. Too many illegals breaking and entering, even in a
heavily patrolled retirement community. Great idea, but I would put
about a 10,000 volt fence around it and then label it every 5 feet or
so, "Danger, this 10,000 volt fence will kill you if you touch it.",
but only in English. That way the morning cleanup could find the non
English speaking thieves who tried to climb it and steal something.
I know, I am so inhumane.
Sick of illegals, too.
Bill Baka

Please stop cross posting to rec.bicycles.rides.

It is against the posting guidelines that were posted here just this week.

Please remove rec.bicycles.rides from all of these irrelevant threads
(started by PITA trolls, I might add).

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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
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Chuck Anderson wrote:
Please stop cross posting to rec.bicycles.rides.

It is against the posting guidelines that were posted here just this week.

Please remove rec.bicycles.rides from all of these irrelevant threads
(started by PITA trolls, I might add).

Unfortunately, cross-posting trolls are a part of usenet. The best
thing to do is to kill the thread. Since you apparently post using
Thunderbird, you can just press the 'K' key when viewing any message in
this thread. This will "kill" the thread. After switching to another
group you've subscribed to and switching back to r.b.r, this thread will
no longer be visible.

HTH.