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Author: steve green (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: 23-02-2005 20:07
Will we ever see someone pedalling to the woods in a velomobile with a mountain bike on a rack? Or would the end of a cheap supply for Energy Abusers mean the end of such practices? Would having to make some physical effort reduce the incidence of Mobility Addiction?
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Author: BenKinetics (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: 24-02-2005 08:06
Well, I'm planning to put bike racks on the roof of my AVD Van ;-)
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 24-02-2005 08:50
"Would having to make some physical effort reduce the incidence of Mobility Addiction?"
I suspect that for a lot of people it would. At least until they discovered somehow that it is actually possible to travel over a mile under your own steam. So many people seem to think it's physically not possible. Or at least it's possible to do so if it's a trail round a forest or Centre Parcs, but not if it's a practical everyday journey.
I'm on a downer about the human race today, having watched the programme about School dinners last night and seen not only how awful the food they get at school can be, but that they have to eat it off moulded plastic trays. At least they actually had knives and forks. (For the benefit of overseas readers, a top TV chef has started a crusade to improve on the constant diet of reconstituted muck and chips).
And: cue Andy, to tell us how many bikes he can tow/carry at a time... ;-)
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Author: Andy Scaife (---.fast.net.uk)
Date: 24-02-2005 13:50
I think most people would just stay at home and order-in! In every other walk of life, the expenditure of any effort, whether it be on labour, imagination or thought, is the first to be 'saved' by technology, or subsumed by lifestyle choice.Even books are too much effort for the muggles these days, so what chance bicyles?
BTW I have been known to carry an off-roader to the hills on a trailer behind a road tourer. I know the effort is more that it would be just pedalling the X-c bike, but that's not the point! The point is my anal categorisation of bike for purpose! There's also the fact that the ride to the Wolds on the knobblies would do my head in!
Andy Scaife,
BikeRescue
York, UK.
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 24-02-2005 16:06
Ah, but come the revolution, when the oil runs out and the lights go off, its the imaginers and the doers and the makers who'll have the best chance of survival. ;-)
Except... the muggles, as you so succinctly call them, will just come along with big sticks and clobber us and take advantage... (Return to dark brooding dislike of most of the human race...)
Did anyone see the rites of passage programme on TV the other night? There was a Ugandan lad, 16, orphaned, who'd built his own hut, lined the walls with newspaper, so that visitors would have something to read and saved up to buy a chair and a light bulb. And when he'd saved enough, he was going to buy a battery, to light the bulb. Imagine the average 16 year old in Britain doing that!
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Author: steve green (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: 24-02-2005 17:04
Yes, quite. He really impressed me, too.
However, on a downer, Andy calls them "Muggles", but "Orcs" sometimes fits better.
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Author: Andy Scaife (---.fast.net.uk)
Date: 28-02-2005 15:42
I'm currently doing a Cert in Permaculture Design, and we have been watching some fascinating films on indigenous peoples, and their way of life (remarkable similarities throughout the world, all arrived at independently). The tragic aspect is when you see western culture being foisted on them. It's a culture which appeals to the teenage boys, and no-one else. The things we do in the name of 'development', and the wrong-headed well-meaning projects undertaken to 'help' these societies (like schools which take the kids away from 'learning-in-the-field' and give them western values and aspirations) is the real tragedy. I could go on, but it has nothing to do with bikes!
When the party really is over, I hope there are enough of these people left to teach us how to live again!
Einstein said;
"I know not how World war 3 will be fought, but i know that World war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones". A cyclist, of course!
Andy Scaife,
BikeRescue
York, UK.
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Author: Seamus (---.force9.co.uk)
Date: 28-02-2005 19:00
My favouritist word to describe a certain group of members of our society what drive cars, especially in summer when it's hot and cyclists are bothered by those noisy, bothersome things passing too closely in an irritating manner.....
TICS
Tw*ts In Cars!
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