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

"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.

On 18 Jul 2006 07:44:55 -0700, donquijote1954 wrote:

Just don't leave her. Simply have an affair with the bike.

Or become a bigamist.

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trino wrote:
"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.


Maybe not millions of ours, but the troop deaths are coming close to
what the tower attacks totaled up to be. Solar cells are really not that
expensive to produce, but there has been no competition between giants
like Intel and AMD due to lack of customer interest. Let's hope that
changes soon and the house with out a roof full of solar panels or a
windmill is declared the neighborhood eyesore. That would sure **** of
some of those high and might home owner's associations. 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.
I guess if you can afford the house, you are supposed to afford the
power bill. A / C on an average 115 degree day with maybe 10% humidity
really sucks up the KW/Hr.s
Bill Baka

Dave Head wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006 15:14:50 -0700, "Arif Khokar"
wrote:

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.

Are you saying you can only average 6 to 7 mph on a bike? I'm not very
fast, but I can average 15 mph on a bike. That means I can make the
commute in about 80 minutes give or take.

Try 20 miles each way in Virginia today. 100 degrees out there.

Just takes a little getting used to.

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.


Incremental cost: New bike every year plus repairs $2,000

Properly maintaining a good quality bike will cost far less than $2000
per year. The bike will last quite a bit longer than a year as well.

And maybe an expensive ride to the emergency room for heat exhaustion.

Only if you don't drink enough water.

-M

"Michael Warner" wrote in message
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On 18 Jul 2006 07:44:55 -0700, donquijote1954 wrote:

Just don't leave her. Simply have an affair with the bike.

Or become a bigamist.

Or a bikeamist



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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.

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Dave Head wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006 15:14:50 -0700, "Arif Khokar"
wrote:

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.

Are you saying you can only average 6 to 7 mph on a bike? I'm not very
fast, but I can average 15 mph on a bike. That means I can make the
commute in about 80 minutes give or take.

Try 20 miles each way in Virginia today. 100 degrees out there.

Just takes a little getting used to.



Plus a place to bathe and change your clothes when you get to work.
Actually wash you clothes too.

Pat wrote:

Biking on packed snow -- especially snow over packed snow -- is very
tricky because the tires aren't formulated for it. The rubber is too
hard.

Not any bike tires I've used. How do you know this? Bike tire rubber
seems softer than car tire rubber.


Also, at 100 psi, you don't have enough contact with the ground.
So bikes and motorcycles go away when the snow starts.

You can have as much contact as you want, you can use treaded and even
studded tires. Lots of people ride bikes all winter in snowy climates --
I do.