BIKE: Proposed law for $5 MB trails set-aside

[Hill Abell]

On 4/5/05 6:53 AM, "Patrick Goetz" <pgoetz> wrote:



>Consider, for 
> example, that 99.9% of recreational bicyclists load their bikes on a car
> in order to drive to location they plan to bike at.  Clearly
> transportation and bicycling are not concepts that are in any way
> connected in their minds.

Patrick, as usual you pull your arguments out of thin air with absolutely
nothing to substantiate them other than your own narrow worldview.

I wasn't stating that the majority of recreational cyclists use their bikes
for transportation, but that very few cyclists become transportation
cyclists just because they get tired of driving their car to work every day
and decide to start riding their bikes.

Most of us who grew up in the 60's and before used bikes for transportation
just like you did, then as soon as we could drive a car we began doing so.
But many of us from those generations began cycling again in our 20's or
later for fitness or just plain fun (oh perish the thought!  Cycling is
serious business and how are we going to save the world if we don't take
bikes seriously!) but, contrary to your opinion, there are many recreational
cyclists who use their bikes for transportation as well.  I know that for a
fact because my staff and I at the store encounter them daily, and we see
the number of people interested in using their bikes for transportation
growing in proportion to the folks interested in fun or fitness.  So much so
that we are about to create an entire new section of our store devoted to
urban cycling/commuting needs and touring equipment, dropping one of those
dreaded recreational categories (triathlon) to make room for it.





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