[Riley Casey]

Not sure if he’s walking or riding but he is stylin’ big time.

[Riley Casey]

I’m probably the only person in America who is fatter as a cyclist than I was as a motorist. I absolutely buy more food from more trips to the grocery store, stop for more cups of coffee ( and eat more gigantic slices of pumpkin pie no thanks to Zeds Coffee shop ) and eat lunch out at restaurants. Biking is enabling behavior because it is so trivial to stop without circling the block for parking or hiking from the bowels of a parking garage a quarter mile away. It always cracked me up when any politician of the conservative stripe warbled long and hard about supporting small businesses while in the next breath scoffed at spending a dime on bike lanes and livable cities. As a small business owner I know that six lane suburban drags lined with strip malls are not the most effective way to get me as a customer.

[Riley Casey]

Glad your ok aside from that momentary wounded pride element. Sorry to be a heathen but … Why do people use clips or even straps in the city? I’ve never used either, always removed the straps from every new bike i’ve bought. Not being able to get my foot off the peddle and on the ground instantly just scares the crap out of me. I totally get clips in road cycling out in the far countryside but in town not so much. Just curious.

[Riley Casey]

Some sort of Rubicon has been crossed when it’s perfectly normal for Americans to chatter with a Chinese marketer about Korean pop music – and if not because of the cultures and distances involved then simply because the spammer came back to chat at all. :rolleyes:

[Riley Casey]

Awww you shoulda said you were coming by I coulda come out to wave hello.:p Sligo is fun even at rush hour. My favorite park to ride. Glad you enjoyed the ride.

[Riley Casey]

I am quite sure that if it were possible to afford the average commuter even a single experience of doubling a half mile long line of stop and go commuter traffic at high rush hour on a bike that the percentage of bike commuters would grow by a factor of ten, nay 20. Perhaps WABA is missing an important boat here. Maybe Bike to Work Day should be structured around leading organized rides of new commuters past the lines of cars that clog their usual commute routes say in groups of ten riders.

@Dirt 35396 wrote:

Here’s one of my motivations to ride year-round.
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[Riley Casey]

In NW DC my entire process was under half an hour including waiting in line for the touchscreen and then bailing out for the paper as it was moving faster. Of course nothing as momentous as gay marriage is in MD and not like an individual presidential vote counted in the way it could in swing state VA but still it was satisfying filling in the ovals with the number two pencil. The biggest local question on the DC ballot – should politicians convicted of felonies committed while in office be disqualified from holding office? Life’s full of tough questions.:confused:

Still my helmet’s off to the voters in FL waiting 4 – 8 hours to cast their multipage ballots.

[Riley Casey]

Guess I won’t be getting a free beer at Cap City Brewery but my Jamis feels very patriotic now. Did a paper ballot again after years of touch screen just for that Norman Rockwell experience.

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[Riley Casey]

There was a report of a man pulling a gun in NY or perhaps NJ to defend his new place in the gas line outside a filling station today. There were reports yesterday of people trying to pry open the doors of waiting buses to ensure one of the limited seats. Driving and even riding a bus or train are largely passive, isolated activities. The isolation instilled by driving is obvious, your bringing your private castle with you. Public transit compels a deliberate facelessness, a minding your own business regimen enforced by the sardine can milieu of the transit system be it train or bus. Riding and walking on the other hand almost require an openness to the world and the people around you. The rider or walker are taking on the world, deliberately taking a piece of it for themselves and yet sharing that space with the people around them. I suspect that like the sous-chef mentioned in the article ( that must be quite a law firm he works for ) once he has been reminded of the flavor of freedom that a bike gives he will not let go. Washington has a very different culture from NY and I’ve never been to a genuinely bike intensive city like Amsterdam but the differences that I have seen between cities like central Paris that value pedestrians ( with the then relatively new Velib ) over machines has always been striking.

[Riley Casey]

‘The Rock’ comes to mind :p
@Dirt 34723 wrote:

In a federally-supervised assisted living facility?

[Riley Casey]

Tammany Hall would be proud. 😮

[Riley Casey]

You get WABA long johns.

@Certifried 34369 wrote:

I’m already a member. What happens if I join again?

[Riley Casey]

Some more detail on the conceptual methodology of this study might have been helpful on this. Its entirely possible that the test pool was largely college age males less risk averse than a MAML such as me. Perhaps I’m just a wuss but my list would have started with designing bike infrastructure that minimizes the chance of death or crippling injury due to interaction with motor vehicles and to a lesser extent road surfaces maintained with motor vehicles in mind. Nothing takes the fun out of flying down a nice hill at 30 mph like hitting the road face first after finding that pot hole at the bottom. The article writer takes in safety at number six on his list and then only glancingly.

[Riley Casey]

The best ones for riding are those left behind on the dining table. Listen to your world when you’re rolling out and about in it. Save the sound track for when your in the car and being out and about sucks a bit more. Web pontification at no additional charge.

[Riley Casey]

Since I ride more than I drive there are a number of places that I only know a bike appropriate route to and this doesn’t even include trails. I’ll occasionally get asked when I’m driving someplace like that ” why the hell are you taking us thru these alleys?”:confused:

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