🚀 go-pugleaf

thats why you would start to WEAR a helmet... I dunno, that MIGHT just 
work...

"DiscoDuck" <fornewsgroups@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
news:1148242399.819796.125480@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I use to bike to work until the police started stopping and ticketing
> me for no helmet.
> i bike no more.
>
>
> Brian wrote:
>> I feel like Noah...saw what was coming and prepared for it. 
>> Well...that's
>> the way it worked out, anyways...
>>
>> I get some mild amusement from all the media hype about gas prices.
>>
>> See, I'm just a fat guy who got into the habit of biking to work a few 
>> times
>> a week...a few years ago.  Now, I have a harem of two wheelers...and my 
>> 10
>> mile commute can take as little as 40 minutes.  I am fully prepared to 
>> bike
>> to the job daily, in all weather ('cept snow...I don't DO snow).  Whether 
>> or
>> not I'll HAVE a job if fuel prices keep rising is a question best 
>> discussed
>> in another post...
>>
>> I am also mildly amused by all the "newly concious" drivers out there who
>> have determined to "do something" to defray the high cost$ of operating 
>> an
>> automobile.  Common refrain: "maybe I'll start biking to work..."
>>
>> Uh-huh.  Suuuuurrrre you will.
>>
>> We human beans can be very short-sighted, no?  My point is that if you 
>> are
>> really SERIOUS about the bike-to-work-every-day thing...you would have
>> started on it three years ago.  I'd love to claim superiority of
>> insight...but I actually started this gig to get more exercise; besides, 
>> it
>> doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to figure out where gas prices are going.
>>
>> I hope to see many more of us out there.  I did see a few get in the 
>> saddle
>> during the last Transit Strike...but after the strike was over the number 
>> of
>> our two-wheeled brothers and sisters diminished again.  A very few of the
>> hardy souls who started on the cycle-path actually stuck with it. 
>> Perhaps
>> this current crisis with fuel prices will convince more people to stick 
>> with
>> it.  Guess we'll see in three years.
>>
>> End of Rant.
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