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I biked to work and back (12 miles) and loved it. I only stopped when I got hit by a car and got my arm broken ... which incidentally is the best reason NOT to do bicycle commuting. It's freaking dangerous; people just don't look for bicyclists. Quality road bikes can go 20-30 MPH on level ground without too much effort as well, making sure any accident is extra bloody for the rider...
I biked to work and back (12 miles) and loved it. I only stopped when I got hit by a car and got my arm broken ... which incidentally is the best reason NOT to do bicycle commuting. It's freaking dangerous; people just don't look for bicyclists. Quality road bikes can go 20-30 MPH on level ground without too much effort as well, making sure any accident is extra bloody for the rider...
When the horse throws ya the best course of action is to get back on to let'm know who's boss.
Might have missed this one in school or something but here goes -- that which we do not spend, we still have.
Philip your anti-academic claptrap is rather tiresome, not to mention you start every post with an insult.
Regardless, you are committing a very basic mistake here, you are applying a microeconomic principle to the realm of macroeconomics. As far as an individual or business is concerned "that which we do not spend we still have" is true, but that isn't true macroeconomically. Macroeconomically if everyone saves, nobody saves.
Say everyone started doing this and we stopped spending gobs of money on gas. A lot of little business owners who run gas stations would have to close their businesses and put their employees out of work.
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People who whine about bicycles can't fathom the idea of not being able to drive whenever wherever they want to. THAT is what's called SPOILED!
While I see nothing wrong with riding a bike, I certainly don't "whine about bicycles" (whatever that means) but what is so bad / wrong / spoiled about wanting to do things whenever and wherever you want to if the means to do so are available?
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I just can't see myself picking up a girl and heading out of the bar and walking to a bike. Somehow I think that is a mood killer!
Come on...you can ride her home on the handlebars.
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No one in Amsterdam dates. Ever . It's God's Honest Truth.
I guess they could just bike into the red light district.
No, it's not about the bikes, it's about growing old depending on one. Perhaps you've ridden all your life and are in great shape. Most older Americans however might go out on a weekend bike ride on side roads and parks. Once in a very great while I see a senior cit riding the main thoroughfares with a helmet on, old diehards who were probably fit all their lives. Sorry but I don't see relying on bikes for the vast majority of boomers
Sorry, but I don't buy the "since we are lazy and fat now we shall have to remain lazy and fat...forever" theory.
People CAN and DO change, yes even late in life. I have a dear friend who started riding in her late 60s. She was easily 100 lbs overweight. I sold her an adult tricycle with a basket.
9 months later I saw her again. I was afraid to comment on her appearance in case she'd fallen ill.....yes she was ~that~ skinny! She grabbed my hand, told me she had never felt better in her life and that now she was tired of the old-lady bike and wanted a "fast bike". A few months later, she crashed. But she picked her self up, dusted herself off, and still rides to this day.
Also, since we are talking about dependence, let's go ahead and discuss America's aging boomer popultaion and their dependence upon private automobiles. Just how long are we going to let these folks keep driving multiple-thousands-of-pounds-of-steel on public roadways as their eyesight, their hearing, and their reflexes fail???
When you take away their car (a necessity for the safety of society) you basically render them immobile again. Infantilized. Dependent upon family and neighbors.
Why not start to plan NOW for a better option ? Walkable/bikeable communities that also allow for small motorized wheelchairs and yes bicycles and tricycles (not sure if you know this, but you can buy electric-assisted cycles that are wonderful for those with limited body-strength).
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... which incidentally is the best reason NOT to do bicycle commuting. It's freaking dangerous; people just don't look for bicyclists. Quality road bikes can go 20-30 MPH on level ground without too much effort as well, making sure any accident is extra bloody for the rider...
. It's God's Honest Truth. 
