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In rec.bicycles.misc Sancho Panza wrote:
"Baxter" wrote in message Ice Walker Cleats by Covell Covell Ice Walker cleats are easy on; Snow and Ice Traction Cleats Scandinavian bicycle tire manufacturer Nokian makes carbide-studded "ice" Does anyone know how many of these are sold in the U.S.? Err, pretty much all of them? The shoe ice-cleats are standard equipment for certain types of outdoorsy winter people. I've seen them in person at my local REI. The studded bike are available by mailorder. None of my local shops carry them that I know of, but Peter White cyclery and some others do ship them. -- Dane Buson - Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love" |
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In rec.bicycles.misc Sancho Panza wrote:
"nash" wrote in message news:G%LBh.1017973$1T2.560822@pd7urf2no... You want to ride your bike in 20 degree temperatures and 20 mile an hour winds with ice and salty slushy crap all over the roads, you be my guest. I'll stick with the car; heart disease is the least of my worries under those conditions. -- , I do not think we get heart disease from driving or taking transit in foul weather. I am talking about over the years 99% of the time drivers could have walked to the corner grocery and not taken a humvee. Sure, the corner grocery is more than two miles away and I've got three or four bags of groceries to carry back. Got a good way to do that? Absolutely. I can take six full sacks by myself. Only four plus two jugs of milk if I'm carrying my five year old along. http://xtracycle.com http://unixbigots.org/files/xtracycle_girls-01.jpg Of course, if you're routinely carrying more than a couple hundred pounds of cargo, you might look into a stokemonkey. -- Dane Buson - We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. (Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software) |
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donquijote1954 wrote:
On Feb 16, 9:23 pm, "Jack May" wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ps.com... But the good news is the facts are on our side and an ounce of truth trumps a tonne of lies. Given the choice, most people opt for carfree experiences: speedy tram trips, vacations in Venice, strolls to local markets, and public gathering places free from motor vehicles. The challenge then is to promote existing carfree otions and to create new ones. You really should wait to until you come down from you drug high before posting insane gibberish You forget two important words: GIVEN THE CHOICE. People often do none of the above because they don't have a choice. Same thing for riding a bike... "The culture is so geared to motor vehicles, it's oppressive," says Craig Barnes, events coordinator of Transportation Alternatives, the nonprofit group that organizes Bike Week, with sponsorship from the city's Department of Transportation. "It's a real catch-22. People say they'd bike if they saw more infrastructure, like bike lanes, parking, traffic law enforcement, but city planners and politicians say they won't give more until they see a need for it. Who's going to make the first move? We try to link these two things." There's a nice scenic road around a nearby island. In order to accommodate cycle traffic, the city marked off a cycle lane along one side of the road. Due to the width of the road (very narrow), they couldn't manage to put a lane on either side. So, in order to circumnavigate the island, you've got to go around clockwise. On a few nice weekend days, I've taken my bicycle around the loop. Riding clockwise, using the bicycle trail. Oddly enough, I'd say that about 95% of the rest of the cycle traffic takes the loop counter-clockwise. This places them on the side of the road with no trail where they have to block traffic. In addition, I get quite a few dirty looks and a few comments about riding 'the wrong way'. As far as I can tell, when riding recreationally, it doesn't matter which way one rides and I'd rather use the cycle lane. Unless of course, your form of recreation happens to be blocking traffic. -- Paul Hovnanian ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sleep is for wimps. Happy, healthy, well-rested wimps, but wimps nonetheless. |
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"donquijote1954" wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 16, 9:23 pm, "Jack May" wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ps.com... "The culture is so geared to motor vehicles, it's oppressive," says Craig Barnes, events coordinator of Transportation Alternatives, the nonprofit group that organizes Bike Week, with sponsorship from the city's Department of Transportation. "It's a real catch-22. People say they'd bike if they saw more infrastructure, like bike lanes, parking, traffic law enforcement, but city planners and politicians say they won't give more until they see a need for it. Who's going to make the first move? We try to link these two things." You know, cars get the lion's share... Actually transit gets the majority of the transportation dollars in major cities while transporting only a small fraction of the commuters. That high spending on failed transit is what leads to increased congestion, leading to increased pollution leading to a high early death rate. It also leads to higher gas consumption which leads to increased CO2. You may get a kick out of trying to damage society with your incredible ignorance, but I am not amused. "The skew to cars, despite their disadvantages, is so profound, politicians and bureaucrats spend entire careers simultaneously trying to accommodate and tame traffic." Again you show you high level of ignorance of our technological society. Technology evolves over time as new technologies are tried with the ones that best meet the needs of people going on to dominate society until they are killed off with the next superior technology that people want. The word "skew" implies an unnatural process for what is actually normal technology evolution. . More of your irrational paranoia resulting from your ignorance of the society you live in.. You probably too far over the edge into your insanity to ever be of any value in society, but who knows, sometimes nutcases yelling on street corners recover sanity. |
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Does the word "options" scare anyone?
"donquijote1954" wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 18, 12:50 pm, Arif Khokar wrote: Nobody is proposing here a no-car option. We are proposing OPTIONS, like people choosing whether they need a car in freezing weather or simply riding a bike in beautiful sunny weather. Does the word "options" scare anyone? It is a very scary word in technology because it leads to major failures in society. especially failure in transportation. Technology "S" curves show the progress of technology in society with new, better technology replacing old, inferior technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations The problem is when you want options, the old technology is more expensive and the new technology requires money to grow. So for transportation to have options, you have to spend a lot of money on the old technology (transit) and lot of money as the newer technology (cars) becomes the dominant technology. Money constraints then results in both options not having enough money to grow the better solution and maintain the inferior solution. That is why in almost all technology fields only the dominant technology is available with few or no real options. That is the reason there are no tube computer options out there. The result of having options in technology is that both the old and the new technology are strangled for funds which greatly damages both options. Yes, "options" loved by the ignorant is very scary to knowledgeable people that want to build a working society, not a broken society. |
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"Paul Hovnanian P.E." writes: There's a nice scenic road around a nearby island. In order to accommodate cycle traffic, the city marked off a cycle lane along one side of the road. Due to the width of the road (very narrow), they couldn't manage to put a lane on either side. So, in order to circumnavigate the island, you've got to go around clockwise. On a few nice weekend days, I've taken my bicycle around the loop. Riding clockwise, using the bicycle trail. Oddly enough, I'd say that about 95% of the rest of the cycle traffic takes the loop counter-clockwise. This places them on the side of the road with no trail where they have to block traffic. If the cyclists are riding on the road, on the correct side, they /are/ traffic. In addition, I get quite a few dirty looks and a few comments about riding 'the wrong way'. As far as I can tell, when riding recreationally, it doesn't matter which way one rides and I'd rather use the cycle lane. Unless of course, your form of recreation happens to be blocking traffic. If cars can pass each other on this road, they can pass bikes too. -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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David Kerber wrote: Get a trailer? The only issue I can see with carrying groceries by bike would be refrigerated or frozen stuff in warm weather, when it might get too warm by the time I get home. Though a good cooler could take care of that (for smaller quantities, you can get insulated bags or panniers). You can even go further if you get electric coolers powered by solar panels on top of the trailer! -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, 4ax.com, buzzardnews.com, googlegroups.com, heapnode.com, localhost, x-privat.org |
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"Jack May" wrote in message . .. "donquijote1954" wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 16, 9:23 pm, "Jack May" wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message ps.com... "The culture is so geared to motor vehicles, it's oppressive," says Craig Barnes, events coordinator of Transportation Alternatives, the nonprofit group that organizes Bike Week, with sponsorship from the city's Department of Transportation. "It's a real catch-22. People say they'd bike if they saw more infrastructure, like bike lanes, parking, traffic law enforcement, but city planners and politicians say they won't give more until they see a need for it. Who's going to make the first move? We try to link these two things." You know, cars get the lion's share... Actually transit gets the majority of the transportation dollars in major cities while transporting only a small fraction of the commuters. That high spending on failed transit is what leads to increased congestion, leading to increased pollution leading to a high early death rate. It also leads to higher gas consumption which leads to increased CO2. You may get a kick out of trying to damage society with your incredible ignorance, but I am not amused. "The skew to cars, despite their disadvantages, is so profound, politicians and bureaucrats spend entire careers simultaneously trying to accommodate and tame traffic." Again you show you high level of ignorance of our technological society. Technology evolves over time as new technologies are tried with the ones that best meet the needs of people going on to dominate society until they are killed off with the next superior technology that people want. The word "skew" implies an unnatural process for what is actually normal technology evolution. . More of your irrational paranoia resulting from your ignorance of the society you live in.. You probably too far over the edge into your insanity to ever be of any value in society, but who knows, sometimes nutcases yelling on street corners recover sanity. I wonder why horse lovers do not get involved so they can declare that bicycles get too much attention and what we really need are horse trails along the interstates, along with special entrances and exits, to stop the skew in favor of mechanized transport. |
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Doc O'Leary writes: In article , David Kerber wrote: Get a trailer? The only issue I can see with carrying groceries by bike would be refrigerated or frozen stuff in warm weather, when it might get too warm by the time I get home. Though a good cooler could take care of that (for smaller quantities, you can get insulated bags or panniers). You can even go further if you get electric coolers powered by solar panels on top of the trailer! You don't need all that hi-tech, energy-consuming razmatazz. Why do people always default to wasteful, hi-tech/hi-cost approaches? Actually, properly frozen foods stay frozen out of the freezer pretty good for a couple of hours. Throw a couple of containers of ice in there, and yer off 'n runnin'. Stick yer bottle of pink grapefruit juice in there too, for chilled swigs on the way home. And if you're gonna gripe that everything is too far away from you -- well, maybe it's /you/ that is too far away from everything you want. You can always move back to the city, where everything /is/. -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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