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

In article .com, Pat wrote:

But does traffic actually move faster than a bicycle? In chicago it
doesn't when 6 inches is on the ground.

I colleage from Westchester was in Syracuse and dreaded leaving an
office at 5:00 to head towards home. He didn't want to sit in traffic.
I told him not to worry about Syracuse's Rush Quarter-Hour.

Seldom to these places have traffic tie-up that would have a bike going
faster than a car. A big part of that is because "no one" lives in
those cities anymore. Everyone uses the expressway and commutes. So
the only tie up is on the way to the on-ramp.

Am rutinely in traffic that is slower than I ride, driving or bicycling.
This morning a traffic light defaulted to a stop sign. Huge backup as
drivers don't know wtf to do... I could have biked to work faster using
the back roads with nothing but stop signs. Trouble was I was I was past
the point of no return before I saw the backup thanks to the way the
roads are designed.

John S. wrote:
Before the commuter has a chance to shorten his ride, his wife sues for
divorce because he is gone so long from home that she became lonely and
had an affair with the cable tv repairman.

Isn't that what you wanted? Then you are free to go out with that sexy
lady you met in the bicycle. And she will save you from a couch potato
life in which you were bound to have a heart attack in 3 years. As for
the alimony, whatever you saved in insurance, you know, consider it a
loss.

george conklin wrote:
"Pat" wrote in message
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One last example for you to think about. What if you went hunting and
got a deer. How would you bring it back to your house on a bike?

He would cut it up into 132 pieces, eat 10, and bring the rest home 3 at
a time.

Either that or simply don't kill the deer. Just set up a trap and then
have him walk with you properly attached with a rope to the back of
your bicycle.

george conklin wrote:

Incremental cost: Alimony and child support for the next 20 years.

Nah, just make your wife ride with you for her health!!!!

OK, that's good --if he doesn't want to get rid of her!

greggery peccary wrote:
And they'll give you a nice
attention-getter physique

really? where's mine! ive been riding many years and im still as ugly as
ever!

Don't blame the bike, blame genetics!

But think how much worse it would be if it weren't for the bike.

Jack May wrote:
"Pat" wrote in message
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And interesting and incomplete analysis. You forgot something. How do
you (or your teenager) make out on the back seat of a bike.


That is evolution in action. Weeding out the failures in society like
donquijote1954

Don't say that. Just call me the "Black Sheep." You know why they were
expelled???

HOW THE BLACK SHEEP WERE EXPELLED

One day the Lion, who had been thinking how to best eat the sheep,
decided to dress as one of them... This way the common sheep trusted
the new sheep more and more every day, some confessing to him, others
voting for him, and most allowing to be fleeced by him...

Meanwhile, the Black Sheep--who was able to see through
camouflage--thought this way: "If he got big paws and teeth, and takes
the lion's share, lion he is..."

And that's the reason why from then on the Black Sheep weren't allowed
to mingle anymore with the simple and common sheep...

wrote:
1500 miles per gallon @ $3 per gallon of gasoline vs 20 mile charge
cost 5 cents.
Electric bikes typically travel at speeds of 10 to 20+ miles per hour
and go up to 12-20 miles charge. Charging your electric bike for four
to six hours uses 5 cents worth of electricity from common 110 wall
outlets. The electric bike power can give you a break from pedaling or
supply more power when you're going up hill.
http://www.bicycles-electric-bikes.com/bike_to_work.htm

Oh, I like that. Another advantage of a noiseless electric motor is you
can sneak up on your wife who you know is having an affair with the
cable man.

"donquijote1954" wrote in message
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Jack May wrote:
"donquijote1954" wrote in message
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They are simply cool as
well as more troublefree and cheaper.

Too expensive in the cost of time. Very few people can afford to use a
bike.

More likely than not they are either afraid, or simply have given much
thought to it. Remember, the sheep follow the herd, and the herd
follows the SUV commercials.

How much do you sins cost you?

trino wrote:
Too expensive in the cost of time. Very few people can afford to use a
bike.

More likely than not they are either afraid, or simply have given much
thought to it. Remember, the sheep follow the herd, and the herd
follows the SUV commercials.

How much do you sins cost you?

My sins are on the cheap by now. No tobacco or even alcohol. Cheaper
than confessing my sins and paying 10% of my salary to the church.

"donquijote1954" wrote in message
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trino wrote:
Too expensive in the cost of time. Very few people can afford to use
a
bike.

More likely than not they are either afraid, or simply have given much
thought to it. Remember, the sheep follow the herd, and the herd
follows the SUV commercials.

How much do you sins cost you?

My sins are on the cheap by now. No tobacco or even alcohol. Cheaper
than confessing my sins and paying 10% of my salary to the church.


I hear you. I should also add we cannot afford not to ride a bike.
The energy crisis has cost millions of innocent lives because people are
stupid enough to go to war to fill their gas tanks.