Keep Riding, Set An Example For Someone

[BobCochran]

The riding everyone is doing in this can serve as a great example to non-bicycling friends of healthy exercise even when temperatures drop. Winter sports and all that, as fun as ice skating or skiing. Perhaps someone who really need exercise will take up bicycling as a result.

Bob

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[cvcalhoun]

I was biking in to work the other day. Friends who passed me, and those going the other way, called out cheery hellos as I went. And I thought how different this was from driving. I was able to pedal along at a steady rate, instead of the frustration of stop and go traffic. I didn’t have to be tense the whole way about the possibility of some accident making me hours late to work. And if I’d been driving, I probably would never even have known whether I was passing or being passed by the same cars every day, much less have made friends with the drivers. And I wondered why anyone would choose driving over cycling.

[Sunyata]

Today, as I was riding to work, I got caught behind a garbage truck for a couple of blocks. And you know what my first thought was…

Even being stuck behind a smelly garbage truck on a bike is better than driving to work.

[QuikAF77]

@Sunyata 154386 wrote:

Today, as I was riding to work, I got caught behind a garbage truck for a couple of blocks. And you know what my first thought was…

Even being stuck behind a smelly garbage truck on a bike is better than driving to work.

That great draft though!

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