This will be a good decade for horseback riding!

People have become so accustomed to easy transportation that requires
absolutely no labor (except, of course, the foot pressing the gas-
pedal and brake, manually shifting with the right arm, flicking the
turn signals, and occasionally flicking the wipers on).

I'd like to see cycling become the main mode of transportation.
However, there are much more easier ways to travel. Horse? Camel?
Other animals?

On the other hand, Bicycles require much less labor to maintain. Also,
in the long run, they're much more inexpensive. But maybe this thought
is TOO optimistic?

What do you folks think?

wrote:
People have become so accustomed to easy transportation that requires
absolutely no labor (except, of course, the foot pressing the gas-
pedal and brake, manually shifting with the right arm, flicking the
turn signals, and occasionally flicking the wipers on).

I'd like to see cycling become the main mode of transportation.
However, there are much more easier ways to travel. Horse? Camel?
Other animals?

On the other hand, Bicycles require much less labor to maintain. Also,
in the long run, they're much more inexpensive. But maybe this thought
is TOO optimistic?

What do you folks think?

Unfortunately I think our politicians would rather build nuclear power
stations to feed electric cars than create the infrastructure needed to
make cycling an attractive option to all.


--
www.slowbicyclemovement.org - enjoy the ride

On Jan 2, 2:25*pm, Jim A wrote:


Unfortunately I think our politicians would rather build nuclear power
stations to feed electric cars than create the infrastructure needed to
make cycling an attractive option to all.

Well, I doubt there is any infrastructure that will make cycling
attractive to all. In fact, I doubt there's any that will make it
attractive to all physically fit and active folks. Some people just
prefer doing other things.

OTOH, they've already built lots and lots of great infrastructure for
cycling. They call them "paved roads" and I use them all the time.
Wonderful stuff! I need nothing more.

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- Frank Krygowski

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:25:40 +0000, Jim A
wrote:

the infrastructure needed to
make cycling an attractive option to all.

But the whole point of bikes is that they don't need no seeking
infrastructure -- you need steel mills, coal mines, railroads, etc. to
build machines with thousands of precision parts, but we've already
got all that, and bike manufacturers aren't even a blip in our
industrial capacity.

Once you've got the bike, you can take it anywhere there isn't a
determined effort to stop you.

And determined efforts don't always work.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net

I think we should get more inspired by Jesus and ride an ass, thus I
change the horse for the ass. I'm sure the original contributor and
Jesus will forgive me for this...

On Jan 2, 10:22*am, " wrote:
People have become so accustomed to easy transportation that requires
absolutely no labor (except, of course, the foot pressing the gas-
pedal and brake, manually shifting with the right arm, flicking the
turn signals, and occasionally flicking the wipers on).

I'd like to see cycling become the main mode of transportation.
However, there are much more easier ways to travel. Horse? Camel?
Other animals?

On the other hand, Bicycles require much less labor to maintain. Also,
in the long run, they're much more inexpensive. But maybe this thought
is TOO optimistic?

What do you folks think?

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............... wrote:
I think we should get more inspired by Jesus and ride an ass



I prefer my bicycle to you
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Andrew Muzi wrote:
-snip-
.............. wrote:
I think we should get more inspired by Jesus and ride an ass



I prefer my bicycle to you

LOL!

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.

I swear, no spelling checker had had its way with "steenking" when
that message left here.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net

On Jan 3, 1:47*pm, AMuzi wrote:
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.............. wrote:
I think we should get more inspired by Jesus and ride an ass

I prefer my bicycle to you
--

Hey, I was sent by Jesus to tell you this: You are an asshole!