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2006-03-24 10:02 AM

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2006-03-24 10:05 AM
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Crap. This article was on the same page.
This is a hippie liberal paper. Why are they hating the bikes?
http://www.weeklyplanet.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A14676
2006-03-24 10:15 AM
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That damn, dirty hippie bitch!

Bikers who are currently fuming at me, consider this: Would you be content to idle behind a row of slow-moving horse and buggies? Probably not. It's the curse of technology that bike riders have been pushed out to make way for automobiles.

Uh, YES, I would be content. In fact, I have done so when visiting the former inlaws in their Amish populated county.

BTW, is that dude on the left wearing a nude-colored plumsmuggler or is that actually his weiner?



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2006-03-24 10:29 AM
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Ok, to be FAIR, the cover article is one favorable to cycling. So not all of those damn dirty hippies are anti-cyclists.

Best of all, the bike turned out to be the hottest dating vehicle I've ever owned. One Sunday, my girlfriend and I rode to a nearby tavern for burgers and beers. We sat outside, enjoying one of the last of the warm fall afternoons and then wobbled back up the hill to our town. We got home feeling slightly sweaty, a bit tipsy and full of adrenaline.

2006-03-24 10:31 AM
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I think it's funny. I just wish she wouldn't call us "bikers." We should be good stewards, and in her example of cyclists riding three abreast on a single-lane road, well, those cyclits should be riding single file.
2006-03-24 10:35 AM
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Renee - 2006-03-24 9:15 AM

That damn, dirty hippie bitch!

Finally, it sounds like Renee is coming around...

And by her logic in the final paragraph when I come up behind her in my F250 and she's not going fast enough then she better swerve off the road to get out of my way.  And if I'm walking along the sidewalk and she's in my way... well, I guess I better help her to the pavement so that it doesn't slow me down. 

bts 

2006-03-24 10:52 AM
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Well, I'd say that some of the negatives in both the (somewhat positive) cover story and the (crazy rant) negative story stem from the fact that this is about the Tampa Bay area. There's some nice recreational opportunities in the area, and there is a bit of an outdoor/beach/body culture -- but it's also a sprawling, poorly planned, traffic-choked cancer on America's wang. It's kind like Atlanta: You can't walk from anywhere to anywhere else, let alone bike; you have to get on the (far-too-few in number) highway to get from any neighborhood to any other neighborhood; and for many months of the year, it's too dang hot to do anything outside. This makes recreational biking possible, but transportational biking exceptionally difficult -- the only people on foot or on bike for reasons other than exercise in August are the crazy-shirtless-burned-red hairy guys walking on the edge of the highway with their seven dogs.

So you can't compare Amsterdam and Tampa. One is a flat, high concentration, ancient walking city with a pleasant-to-cold climate. The other is a sprawling concrete mega-city with screaming SUVs on choked highways in a hot-to-broiling climate.

2006-03-24 11:02 AM
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I have to disagree with you. I find tampa is a very easy city to bike around. I need a truck for work but I usally ride my bike around when I want to do something on weekends or at night. Traffic is sometimes bad but if you know your way around you will never hit it. The suburbs may be choked up but who really cares, they are the suburbs. As far as the highways I wouldn't know because I use them maybe once a week to go over the bridges. As far as the weather goes, it is all what you are acclimated too. I personally hope it gets hotter and all of the northerners move back home and stop complaining.
2006-03-24 1:15 PM
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rbschlesinger - 2006-03-24 12:02 PM

The suburbs may be choked up but who really cares, they are the suburbs.


Yeah, see, that's where our experiences of Tampa diverge: I was in the suburbs and in the outlying bedroom communities. Now, I agree, if you're living in the Seminole Heights neighborhood, or south Tampa, or someplace else, then you probably can get somewhere useful on a bike. New Tampa, no.
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