One more thought, based on my own experience: One great benefit of cycling (or walking, or public transportation) in place of driving is that one is far less likely to be impatient, worried, anxious, angry because other drivers "get in your way". I think this impatience and anger is caused by the huge, gross, egregious discrepancy between the means given to us by a large vehicles capable of 120 mph and 0-60 in sub 10 seconds, and the normal constraints of traffic and traffic laws -- constraints which grow as traffic grows. You are sitting in your 6000 lb Escalade with 400 hp and you can only go 35 mph for a couple of blocks at a time. Of course you are angry and impatient! (And what a fu**ing perversion that vehicle is!)
Patrick Moore, who recently rented a 2.5 liter 4 cyl Impala that cruised easily at 90 on the flats and climbed Raton Pass at 80 while getting 30 mph. On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > And here's more: > http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140815-rise-of-the-short-haul-truckers > > It would be great for cyclists generally if big boys (Sorry! Big girls! > Sorry! You're not fat!) identified with the cycling world, simply because > (I believe) the one biggest cause of cycling safety is mere general > awareness that cycling is a natural part of everyday traffic -- and this > comes, simply, with more cyclists on the road. (And, it would be great if > such big boys sued the shit out of motorists who egregiously (emphasize > that word) harm cyclists.) > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> While I find an upright position like most of those distinctly >> not-for-me-thank-you , I do love the spirited culture of the place . Too >> bad it's in Europe, where it's too cold, too wet and too cloudy for my >> liking , darn it ! I like this one too, it really shows the mass bike >> culture of the Netherlands . >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQc7qYl6CI My first thought . . . . >> "gee, where *did* I park my bike ?" >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to > never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from > it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* > * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to > look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind > it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into > somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your > daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is > all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was > any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, > because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where > in your time and your body can they be?* > * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. > "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where > Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of > you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
