Reply #16: Thanks ixion

[bikeboy]

the truth here in the land of the accirelerator pedal is that a bicycle is looked at as a toy. We are the only culture that doesn't accept the bicycle as a "real" form of transportation. Americans do many of their around town chores in their cars and those chores are in a very small 1-2 mile circle that a bicycle can do easily. With our population getting fatter and our gas getting more costly (how many boy's and girls are dead today because of good king george and his oil war???) can anyone point me to a more reasonable choice for transprotation?

The bicycle is the most patented device in the world. At one point in the early 1900's the US Patent office had one entire building for bicycles only. A bicycle is 99% efficiant, what more can you ask for? Then there is this really big problem for people too, bicycles are fun!

Oh well, at 5:00 PM here in my busy little town of El Cerrito CA I can get to and from Berkeley faster and happier than Mr./Mrs. auto any day and that is a three and a half mile trip each way. I'm grinnin and their grumpin... easy choice for me. I just hope they don't hit me while they're doin the grumpin thing...