It's nice that the book is getting some exposure and being discussed. Hopefully the people who are taking its message to heart are too busy having fun riding their bike to chime in via the web.
As for NYC... I love visiting but have no desire to ride my bike there. I've spent a fair amount of time in the city and I went to grad school on Long Island, SUNY SB, and while it was very beautiful out there it was a terrifying place to ride a bike. On quiet back roads people tended to speed and would not hesitate to blare their horn at you. Yeah, it wasn't for me. I remember my first ride back in the Marin Headlands after returning to SF, I almost had tears in my eyes. It was so good to be home. All that said, my wife is from Nyack and we were visiting last year and I saw lots of groups of people in Nyack who had apparently pedaled out that way from NYC. Although this was the racer/pseudo-racer crowd, they by and large looked happy to be out on their bikes. People get used to what they have and deal with it. I feel very fortunate to live in Portland, OR. It's pretty friggin awesome for cycling here. Lots of folks "just ride" in this town, I bet a lot of them have never even heard of Rivendell or Grant and are out there living/riding what he's talking about. --mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/PKsFI7ySU24J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
