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

(brought from another group)

"When I was a kid the ice cream man (actually a teenager, but old to us
kids) traveled the neighborhood in my small flat-land town on a three
wheel bike with an ice chest. Two wheels and chest in front, one wheel
in back. It was a factory built looking rig with a row of bells mounted
across the handle bars. No electronic repetitive tune to drive you out
of your skull. The mailman walked to your front door rather than
driving down the curb and all of us kids walked to school except in the
worst of weather. We delivered papers by bike in summer and pulled them
on a sled in the winter. No car routes. What Happened???

Found a picture, they still make them:
http://www.industrialbicycles.com/v-ict.htm"



And now when the Middle East becomes one big ball of fire, the pizza
man will drive something like this...

http://www.industrialbicycles.com/Pi...%20Bicycle.htm

I'm looking forward to it (the man riding the bike).

trino wrote:
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.

I get you now. You are probably are referring to big fat Americans...

But everything will end when the Middle East becomes one big ball of
fire (see post elsewhere).

bicycle_disciple wrote:
What are you Lance Armstrong? Im not harrassing you because of your
speed, but given the fact that you said you take 3 frikkin hours to do
20 miles, and on top of that, you want a new bike every year,...thats
inexcusable!!! Expenses from road injuries?? 2000 dollars worth of
road injuried for 6mph??? What are you, a toddler or something???

Either a toddler or a senior citizen with a trike.

Michael Warner wrote:
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.

A Mormon will be happy.

By the way, I see religous people often driving gas-guzzling SUVs (with
all the mandatory bumber stickers: support our troops, Jesus is on our
side, etc), will they be on the side of Jesus or the Devil's?

I think the recumbent will make the perfect commuter bike, and I'm
getting one of these...

http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/recumbents/ez1/ez1.htm

It's not superfast but VERY COMFORTABLE and we can sell the idea to
lazy Americans (you know who you are) who still have a modicum of
concern for the environment AND want to save the buck. Then they can be
healthy as well as say they are working for peace, and truly be in line
with Jesus's lifestyle. Hallelujah!

"trino" wrote in message
newshrvg.210888$Mn5.152171@pd7tw3no...

"donquijote1954" wrote in message
ups.com...
I think the recumbent will make the perfect commuter bike, and I'm
getting one of these...

http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/recumbents/ez1/ez1.htm

It's not superfast but VERY COMFORTABLE and we can sell the idea to
lazy Americans (you know who you are) who still have a modicum of
concern for the environment AND want to save the buck. Then they can be
healthy as well as say they are working for peace, and truly be in line
with Jesus's lifestyle. Hallelujah!


In the South West BC Cambie Cycle has been the recumbent specialist for
decades. fastest recumbents etc
CAMBIE CYCLES - CANADA'S PREMIER RECUMBENT DEALER
http://www.cambiecycles.com/ no pictures as such but several brands
offered including Sunbicycles
Look under used bikes for the finest looking recumbent.
I know the store owner used to ride to Seattle every weekend on one like
that. Cool bike.

(brought from another group)

donquijote1954 wrote:
(brought from another group)

"When I was a kid the ice cream man (actually a teenager, but old to us
kids) traveled the neighborhood in my small flat-land town on a three
wheel bike with an ice chest. Two wheels and chest in front, one wheel
in back. It was a factory built looking rig with a row of bells mounted
across the handle bars. No electronic repetitive tune to drive you out
of your skull. The mailman walked to your front door rather than
driving down the curb and all of us kids walked to school except in the
worst of weather. We delivered papers by bike in summer and pulled them
on a sled in the winter. No car routes. What Happened???

"That's a job American's won't do but Canada won't let the eskimos who
WOULD do the job cross the border. Damn Canucks."

Talking about eskimos, if Big Oil/Detroit can sell Stupid Unnecessary
Vehicles to Americans, we can sell ice to the eskimos.

trino wrote:
Look under used bikes for the finest looking recumbent.
I know the store owner used to ride to Seattle every weekend on one like
that. Cool bike.

I wanted the EZ-Sport
(http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/recum...rt/ezSport.htm) but
it's too big, and must settle for the lowly EZ-1.

In article . com,
donquijote1954 wrote:
I think the recumbent will make the perfect commuter bike, and I'm
getting one of these...

http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/recumbents/ez1/ez1.htm

It's not superfast but VERY COMFORTABLE and we can sell the idea to
lazy Americans (you know who you are) who still have a modicum of
concern for the environment AND want to save the buck. Then they can be
healthy as well as say they are working for peace, and truly be in line
with Jesus's lifestyle. Hallelujah!

I had a similar recumbent bike, a Batavus Relaxx
http://home.wxs.nl/~kreul1/relaxx/home.html but I didn't like it very
much. Whilst it is comfortable being able to sit in a relaxed pose and you
can actually exert more force on the pedals than on a normal bike, my legs
got tired sooner than on a normal bike.

The problem, at least on this bike, is that you need to hold your legs
horizontally to pedal. To maximise the force on the pedals the leg needs
to be almost straightened when the pedal is the furthest away from the
body. In that position the thigh muscle has a twin duty: it pushes the
pedal *and* needs to hold your leg horizontally. Now, if there were some
sort of straps on the pedals or if I installed the clips that the racing
bikes have it would help, but the first option is dangerous and the second
option necessitates that you use special shoes just for riding the bike.

It got stolen anyway, so now I'm back to a regular bike.

I see from the web page that the EZ-1 has pedals lower than my ex-bike,
but I'd still suggest that before you buy it you take it out for a spin
and see if what I've described also applies to your future bike.

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Jan Kalin wrote:
In article . com,
donquijote1954 wrote:
I think the recumbent will make the perfect commuter bike, and I'm
getting one of these...

http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/recumbents/ez1/ez1.htm

It's not superfast but VERY COMFORTABLE and we can sell the idea to
lazy Americans (you know who you are) who still have a modicum of
concern for the environment AND want to save the buck. Then they can be
healthy as well as say they are working for peace, and truly be in line
with Jesus's lifestyle. Hallelujah!

I had a similar recumbent bike, a Batavus Relaxx
http://home.wxs.nl/~kreul1/relaxx/home.html but I didn't like it very
much. Whilst it is comfortable being able to sit in a relaxed pose and you
can actually exert more force on the pedals than on a normal bike, my legs
got tired sooner than on a normal bike.

The problem, at least on this bike, is that you need to hold your legs
horizontally to pedal. To maximise the force on the pedals the leg needs
to be almost straightened when the pedal is the furthest away from the
body. In that position the thigh muscle has a twin duty: it pushes the
pedal *and* needs to hold your leg horizontally. Now, if there were some
sort of straps on the pedals or if I installed the clips that the racing
bikes have it would help, but the first option is dangerous and the second
option necessitates that you use special shoes just for riding the bike.

It got stolen anyway, so now I'm back to a regular bike.

I see from the web page that the EZ-1 has pedals lower than my ex-bike,
but I'd still suggest that before you buy it you take it out for a spin
and see if what I've described also applies to your future bike.

Thank you for the tip. Well, I took it for a spin for a couple of
minutes and... didn't get tired.

But it's probably an issue. However:

a) I got other bikes
b) I ain't spending that much money ($500)
c) I'll see whether the sport is worth it, since I'm sure all
recumbents would present the same problem.

Now I'm riding a comfort bike which I used to hate until I got the Easy
Seat...

http://www.bikemania.biz/Easy_Seat_b...oneasyseat.htm

And at least the recumbent won't spoil my sex life either!