"The most frequent excuse I hear from car drivers as to why they couldn't possibly use their bikes instead is: 'How do you get home a week's groceries on a bicycle?' Car drivers say this as if the impossibility of such a task is self evident. I don't argue, but I do chuckle, because many of us do it all the time."--Anne Felker, the Practical Pedal.
Entries tagged "bicycle"
Bike Shorts
Swanston Street is crazy
I ain't complainin'. I ain't blamin'. I'm just sayin'. Swanston Street sucks for cyclists.
Bike Shorts
Bike Shorts 10 February 2009
"We take for granted the dominance of the car in our transport system but the might-is-right attitude is downright undemocratic, and proclaims that as a society we believe someone in a 0,000 car is more important than a person on a 00 bike." --Debra Mayrhofer, New Matilda
Heh!
101 days on the bike
No, I haven't literally spent 101 entire days on the bike, but I have done a ride per day on each of the last 101 days.
Bike Shorts
Bike Shorts 1 February 2009
"I noticed that I woke up each day energized and ready to go. I noticed that I was still sharp and productive throughout the day and into the night. I noticed a transition from being tired after riding... to being tired if I didn't ride! It was at that point that I 'discovered' pedalocity." --Michael Sicurello, Well On Earth