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Making people exercise
Well, once I am in a hurry, I take a shortcut, then the next time I
kepe taking the shortcut, which means I wo't walk a smuch. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
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To TibetanMonkey,
Why do YOU keep on posting? YOUR post are of no sense. Do YOU have a mental condition? Randy "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote in message ... On Aug 2, 12:02 am, John B. wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:29:13 -0700 (PDT), "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Jul 29, 10:32 am, John B. wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:39:29 -0700 (PDT), "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Jul 28, 9:31 pm, John B. wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:01:19 -0700 (PDT), "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Jul 27, 8:34 pm, John B. wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:41:44 -0700 (PDT), "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Jul 27, 7:10 am, John B. wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:20:45 -0700 (PDT), "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Jul 26, 12:27 pm, liaM wrote: Le 26/07/2012 17:19, TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher a crit : One good step is for NYC to ban SUVs. Let Bloomberg make up for his mistake. Then communities can declare SUVs "Vehicle Non Grato." "Not in my backyard" is a good motto. Maybe they should concentrate on one point of the nation to avoid conflict with civilization. Maybe they should go to Texas. At the same time NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles), scooters and bicycles would be promoted. The landscape would be similar to Key West, where people is actually having a lot of freedom "out of the cage," be it on NEVs, bicycle or scooter. Of course, their speed limits conduce to this "peace and stability." The occasional SUV is still around but they are mostly controlled and well behaved. And happily ever after. Maybe this wasn't reported in the US. In France, a turning point was reached by the socialist government yesterday. The government has detailed radical steps it is taking to tackle solve the problems facing France's economy (stagnant growth, lay-offs, gas and diesel guzzling cars that aren't selling). They'll be pumping billions into building a network of electric stations for recharging the batteries of all electric cars all throughout France. They've promised French car manufacturers the gov't will buy 25% of the production of all electric cars in 2012. The car buying public will be given a 7000 euros incentive for buying an all-electric car (ain't bad, since the Renault car is announced to sell for around 14,000 euros). And tax disincentives will be applied to manufacturers building gas guzzlers. The gov't's project is to make gas and diesel personal vehicles obsolete, and to be the first nation to achieve this. Yes, but the French government is SOCIALIST and the American public can not live with that. Medicare is socialism but nobody dares touch that. And nobody dares touch the price of gas either. Many sacred cows on this side of the Atlantic. Unfortunately good sense doesn't seem to be one of the herd. No such "revolution" can occur here without major upheaval. It's a technological revolution that still doesn't affect the quality of life, but the vested interests are just too powerful. How so, "technological revolution that still doesn't affect the quality of life,". In France they drive to the next village for lunch. In Texas they drive 100 miles to have supper. The Toyota Prius plug-in has an electric powered range of 15 miles. Your electric car isn't going to cut the mustard. I thought that driving 100 miles for supper was a waste of time and money. Anyway a big truck is totally unnecessary for supper. Some people have flown from the US to Paris for lunch and you are complaining about a little 100 mile drive to get the best tacos and refried beans in the state? Isn't it better to sail to France and then ride a bike to Paris? Not if you plan on being at the office, on time, tomorrow. Best is to ride a bike after supper to digest the food. According to Mayo Clinic.com, digestion time takes between 24 and 72 hours. Taking up Randonneuring? Cheers, John B. I heard randonneuring is not even practiced in France any more. Maybe in Holland and Germany. Probably the most famous brevet, the Paris-Brest-Paris, some 1,200 Km, in 90 hours, attracts about 5,000 entrants from something like 60 countries, is in France. Cheers, John B. Perhaps the common French people don't even know what "randonneuring" is. Or they know it, but never do it. Again... You don't know what you are talking about. A few excerpts about the PBP from the many on the Web: ...groups of Bretons will be on the route, clapping as you ride by, at all hours, even in the dark of night. They cheer you on, they shout "bon courage!" and they really mean it... ...Those early hours introduced me to the many pleasures of PBP: spectators along the route yelling out bon route and bon courage and giving us water and snacks... ...More or less on a whim, I responded to a posting on the web site for PBP where riders could request housing and residents and hotels could offer housing to riders. Because my wife could not join me in Paris, I thought that I might enjoy staying with a family, rather than in a hotel, and that this might make the experience more personal. I had not imagined, however, that I would meet such generous people as the Rosselle family, or that they would take such good care of me. Olivier and Marie Agnes Rosselle took me in sight unseen. They gave me an extremely comfortable place to stay, just three kilometers from the start-line, for the two days before and the two days after the event. They fed me wonderful food, and gave me excellent wine, much of it from Bourgogne, where they had grown up. They washed my clothes. They gave me money to help me to get home after I lost my wallet. Olivier, who is a physical therapist by training, gave me a leg massage after I finished the ride, and this helped me to recover without the knots in my leg muscles that usually follow such a long ride. He also drove me to the airport when I left, thus solving the last cash-flow problem following from the loss of my wallet. The bicycle is making a comeback in France, but nothing like Holland or even Germany. It seems that Germany has more fans of randoneuring than France even though it's a French word. To be honest, I've never met a randoneur in my life, but would like to become one if I find the right location. I don't want groups, just my gf and I without struggling with traffic. Maybe I will have to wait until I get to Europe. That's my kind of thing if that were possible in America. Maybe there's some randonneuring race too! Ranging from the RAAM to all kind of local rides. I even furnished you with some New York groups addresses which included some of their brevets. The Boston - Montreal -Boston is considered one of the top rides in the world (1,200 km out and back). Armstrong is from Texas, the land of SUVs and megachurches. But I hear things are tough for cyclists in Texas. I like the Dutch, Danish, German approach of practical bicycling. I wonder how many Texans go to church on bike. I remember reading that Lance spent 6 hours a day on the bike. In Texas. I don't know whether you call that "practical bicycling" but it didn't seem to hurt him. Cheers, John B. Elite riders have as much to do with practical cycling as we have to do with kids riding in the park. They are the ones that usually go in packs, strap their bikes to the SUV, and are rather ignorant of other purposes of the bike, namely practical tool and social vehicle. 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Making people exercise
Are YOU sick in the head?
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