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Small Wheels are Good!
On Dec 1, 11:38*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"Forrest Hodge" wrote in message I'll take your word for it. If I have to be somewhere 125 miles away I'd rather drive there and be there in about 1/3 of the time it takes to bike. That's not to say I dislike the bicycle, I don't and I do bike for exercise (though not for 125 miles). But the majority of the time if you live in the suburbs or a rural area, the car is a much more practical means of conveyance. Forest Hodge is quite right about the suburbs and rural areas not being friendly to cyclists. Large cities and small towns are the best venues for cycling whether they have bike paths or not. However, some rural areas, like Wisconsin for instance, do have lots of county blacktops which are fine for cycling, but here in Minnesota it is mostly gravel roads in the countryside. A gravel road will wear you down, especially on a recumbent. You guys need to get in touch with the urban jungle. There's no place to ride a bike in America, even less so in the city where people are forced onto the sidewalks, passing the bucket down to the pedestrian. You may load you bike on the car and go some place, but that defeats the purpose of the bicycle as a practical vehicle. There's simply a MONOPOLY by the automobile and oil industry. |
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Does TM have a brain?
"His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard philosopher"
wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 10:29 pm, Forrest Hodge wrote: [...] If you live in suburbs and choose to ride a bike, that's your decision. You can move to the city and live in a more bike friendly place. There are trade offs to living an any given area. The city is NOT a more bike friendly place. In the city you find the monkeys riding on sidewalks... You call that friendly? There are plenty of streets which are suitable for riding a bicycle in any city in the world, even in ****ing Florida. How can I drive driving a sports car? Easy, back country roads and a police force that concerns itself more with keeping violent offenders off the streets more so that [than] it does with the occasional hooning [?]. Sorry, you can have a Mazda Miata to have fun and save a lot of gas. No one hates motor vehicles more than I do. TM would have an ally in me if he would stop proliferating posts and behave responsibly on these newsgroups. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Republicans and other *******s are trying to slow you down
On Dec 1, 3:53*pm, Forrest Hodge wrote:
snip Because public transportation is everywhere, right. Where I live there are no buses, no subways, no bike lanes. It would suicidal and inefficient time-wise to bike to work. So consequently I drive everywhere, and I might as well enjoy myself when I do it. If you really want to get into semantics, it could be considered decedent and unnecessary to ride a bike with 20 in or larger wheels or more than one gear, because everyone should be able to peddle a fixed gear bike up a steep hill and if you can't you're a "****head". Why can't you ride a bike? You already stated that the main problem is it's "suicidal" to ride a bike which I have to assume is because of the cars on the roads making it so rather than armed mobs roving the countryside. And as far as time is concerned I used to ride 120 miles round trip a day to go do things a few towns up the road from me. I did have to "freshen up" before I did my thing, and part of my "thing" was the fact that I showed up on a bicycle from 60 miles away. I was visiting a nursing home and showing I cared enough to ride a bike there added to the ability to do my job. As far as having gears on my bike is concerned, having multiple gears and the knowledge to use them is what we called a "force multiplier" when I was in the military. I can do more with less effort because I have multiple gears on my bike, which makes my bike a better tool for transportation, not decadent, nor decedant, which is a dead person. |
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Republicans and other *******s are trying to slow you down
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:02:45 -0500, Forrest Hodge
wrote: On 11/30/2010 10:43 AM, dgk wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:44:33 -0500, Forrest wrote: On 11/29/2010 4:27 PM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard philosopher wrote: On Nov 29, 4:01 pm, Forrest wrote: On 11/29/2010 11:20 AM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard philosopher wrote: On Nov 29, 10:17 am, wrote: On 11/29/2010 9:21 AM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard philosopher wrote: One solution is to get folding bike. Can't get a basket on those Sorry, I missed this comment which is tied up to the sidewalks. The folding bike not only can take a basket it already comes with rack! That would be the ONLY bicycle I'd allow on sidewalks. The other *******s will get their bicycles impounded. I'd wouldn't worry about tickets. This is a gem of simplicity and comfort... http://www.bikesarecool.com/index.as...ROD&ProdID=397 Let the Republicans die of envy! My 400 HP sport/muscle car isn't envious of a folding bicycle. Well, some day I invite to a Triathlon where one of the events is to take the vehicle in the subway. No subways where I live, and even there were, I don't care for public transportation. I prefer not being at the mercy of bus/subway schedule. Good, and we're spending a trillion dollars to make sure that the oil necessary for ****heads like you remains available. ****heads like me? Care to elaborate or is your argument simply limited to name calling? Essentially you came across as a selfish piece of crap to me. Public transportation is a more environmentally friendly way to run our planet but that apparently didn't matter to you. |
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Republicans and other *******s are trying to slow you down
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:53:22 -0500, Forrest Hodge
wrote: On 12/1/2010 7:28 AM, Opus wrote: On Nov 30, 8:02 pm, Forrest wrote: snip My 400 HP sport/muscle car isn't envious of a folding bicycle. Well, some day I invite to a Triathlon where one of the events is to take the vehicle in the subway. No subways where I live, and even there were, I don't care for public transportation. I prefer not being at the mercy of bus/subway schedule. Good, and we're spending a trillion dollars to make sure that the oil necessary for ****heads like you remains available. ****heads like me? Care to elaborate or is your argument simply limited to name calling? People that drive vehicles with a decimal order of magnitude more power than they need to move their butts with fossil fuels, because they haven't learned to use public transportation and refuse to ride a bicycle to move their butts using their butts. Is that elaborate enough for you? And just to be precise, the war in Iraq cost a billion dollars a DAY for 6 years, do the math. That doesn't even begin to tackle the cost of the war in Afghanistan, and both of those wars were "off-budget" items during the Bush administration, roughly $3 trillion added to the deficit that wasn't even counted until 2008. Because public transportation is everywhere, right. Where I live there are no buses, no subways, no bike lanes. It would suicidal and inefficient time-wise to bike to work. So consequently I drive everywhere, and I might as well enjoy myself when I do it. If you really want to get into semantics, it could be considered decedent and unnecessary to ride a bike with 20 in or larger wheels or more than one gear, because everyone should be able to peddle a fixed gear bike up a steep hill and if you can't you're a "****head". Yes, there are places where public transit sucks, very true. But that isn't the way you phrased it. If available, you would not use it because it can never be as convenient as leaving just when you want to. |
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Republicans and other *******s are trying to slow you down
On Dec 2, 12:41*pm, dgk wrote:
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:53:22 -0500, Forrest Hodge wrote: On 12/1/2010 7:28 AM, Opus wrote: On Nov 30, 8:02 pm, Forrest *wrote: snip My 400 HP sport/muscle car isn't envious of a folding bicycle. Well, some day I invite to a Triathlon where one of the events is to take the vehicle in the subway. No subways where I live, and even there were, I don't care for public transportation. I prefer not being at the mercy of bus/subway schedule. Good, and we're spending a trillion dollars to make sure that the oil necessary for ****heads like you remains available. ****heads like me? Care to elaborate or is your argument simply limited to name calling? People that drive vehicles with a decimal order of magnitude more power than they need to move their butts with fossil fuels, because they haven't learned to use public transportation and refuse to ride a bicycle to move their butts using their butts. Is that elaborate enough for you? And just to be precise, the war in Iraq cost a billion dollars a DAY for 6 years, do the math. That doesn't even begin to tackle the cost of the war in Afghanistan, and both of those wars were "off-budget" items during the Bush administration, roughly $3 trillion added to the deficit that wasn't even counted until 2008. Because public transportation is everywhere, right. Where I live there are no buses, no subways, no bike lanes. It would suicidal and inefficient time-wise to bike to work. So consequently I drive everywhere, and I might as well enjoy myself when I do it. If you really want to get into semantics, it could be considered decedent and unnecessary to ride a bike with 20 in or larger wheels or more than one gear, because everyone should be able to peddle a fixed gear bike up a steep hill and if you can't you're a "****head". Yes, there are places where public transit sucks, very true. But that isn't the way you phrased it. If available, you would not use it because it can never be as convenient as leaving just when you want to. I can relate to: "I won't ride a bicycle because is too dangerous!" Not, "I'm proud to pollute because I can't ride a bike." You may say out in the boondocks he may have a better chance to survive than us in the urban warfare. |
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Small Wheels are Good!
"His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard philosopher"
wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 11:38 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote: "Forrest Hodge" wrote in message I'll take your word for it. If I have to be somewhere 125 miles away I'd rather drive there and be there in about 1/3 of the time it takes to bike. That's not to say I dislike the bicycle, I don't and I do bike for exercise (though not for 125 miles). But the majority of the time if you live in the suburbs or a rural area, the car is a much more practical means of conveyance. Forest Hodge is quite right about the suburbs and rural areas not being friendly to cyclists. Large cities and small towns are the best venues for cycling whether they have bike paths or not. However, some rural areas, like Wisconsin for instance, do have lots of county blacktops which are fine for cycling, but here in Minnesota it is mostly gravel roads in the countryside. A gravel road will wear you down, especially on a recumbent. You guys need to get in touch with the urban jungle. There's no place to ride a bike in America, even less so in the city where people are forced onto the sidewalks, passing the bucket down to the pedestrian. You may load you bike on the car and go some place, but that defeats the purpose of the bicycle as a practical vehicle. There's simply a MONOPOLY by the automobile and oil industry. "There are plenty of streets which are suitable for riding a bicycle in any city in the world, even in ****ing Florida." - Ed Dolan Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Small Wheels are Good!
On Dec 2, 1:06*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"There are plenty of streets which are suitable for riding a bicycle in any city in the world, even in ****ing Florida." - Ed Dolan They are out of reach for most people. Where the hell do you live? Only a few lucky places such as Key West have that privilege. The rest is a jungle. Are you living in a home for the old? |
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Small Wheels are Good!
"His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard philosopher"
wrote in message ... On Dec 2, 1:06 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote: "There are plenty of streets which are suitable for riding a bicycle in any city in the world, even in ****ing Florida." - Ed Dolan They are out of reach for most people. Where the hell do you live? Only a few lucky places such as Key West have that privilege. The rest is a jungle. Walk your bike on the sidewalk until you reach a safe street. Where the hell do you live? In a hotel in the heart of the city? A city like Miami will have hundreds of miles of residential streets which are safe for cycling. ALL small towns in Minnesota are totally safe for cycling and so are the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul). Exactly where do you live in Florida? Are you living in a home for the old? Not yet, but I'm expecting. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Small Wheels are Good!
On Dec 2, 3:17*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"His Highness the TibetanMonkey, not your average backyard wrote in message ... On Dec 2, 1:06 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote: "There are plenty of streets which are suitable for riding a bicycle in any city in the world, even in ****ing Florida." - Ed Dolan They are out of reach for most people. Where the hell do you live? Only a few lucky places such as Key West have that privilege. The rest is a jungle. Walk your bike on the sidewalk until you reach a safe street. Where the hell do you live? In a hotel in the heart of the city? A city like Miami will have hundreds of miles of residential streets which are safe for cycling. ALL small towns in Minnesota are totally safe for cycling and so are the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul). Exactly where do you live in Florida? Are you living in a home for the old? Not yet, but I'm expecting. I hope they don't give a computer. |
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