…is that I get to see people who haven’t ridden a bicycle in years try to use it as their primary mode of transportation. Today I saw one lady trying to balance the grocery bags (more than 4) on the handlebars, and turn at the same time…
…and one guy try to ride his bike over a parking lot divider (approx. 4 inches tall)…
…and one guy tried to ride his bike through a bush.
Maybe he didn’t try to ride it through a bush, but he pulled it off magnificently.
This is fantastic.
-foxy
Bicycle, schmicycle. I just bought myself a 49 cc, 2-stroke, gas scooter to tool around on. It gets between 75 and 100 miles per gallon and no pedalling required.
Hee Hee! I biked to work for the first time in a long time (ever in this town) today, but there were no hijinks involved (and I didn’t ride home due to cold rain). I am getting a kick out of all the guys in suits on their bikes and the city busses.
For the record, what do US citizens consider expensive for gas?
In the UK, the citizens’ revolt threshold is about 95p/litre for 95 RON unleaded, and the best price round here is about 90p/litre (about US $6.02 per US gallon). How would that price go down across the Pond?
Gas prices peaked here at about $3.50 per gallon, and everyone thought that was nucking futs. $6.02 would trigger rioting in the streets!
I don’t even care about the price now, I’m just enjoying watching people fall all over the place.
-foxy
[sub]Disclaimer: Of course I would not laugh and mock if people were getting seriously injured, but this is real life slapstick comedy, and dammit, you’d laugh too.[/sub]
How much has the gas gone up there lately? I remember last year I was paying around $6US in England, and just over $4 on the mainland. At the same time here last year it was $1.75 or so, now it’s up over $3. Has it gone up that much over there?
I think it’s not so much a definite threshhold as the suddenness of the increase that’s got people lathered up.
But my personal limit was $3/gallon. That’s when we started taking the train (well, when I stopped fighting my husband on it and actually started suggesting it - he’s always been a train guy), walking to the store every day instead of doing one large shopping trip by car once a week, etc.
I don’t own a bike, and the idea of riding one terrifies me. I haven’t riden one in 15 years - I’d be providing lots of entertainment.
Given how little public transportation there is in huges sections of the country, not too well. (there’s not a train nor non-school bus that passes through my town, nor any but one of the surounding ones for example) We’re led to believe that they tax the hell out of your gas to pay for things like public buses and whatnot. None of our increased prices mean we get anything like that in return.
IMHO more than about $2.25/gal is expensive, and it’s been expensive for months.
I’ve noticed a slight uptick in the number of bike riders around here, but not a huge one. Occasionally I have trouble finding an open spot on the bike rack in from of my building, so I have to switch to the much larger rack on the next building down the block. Overall, though, Nashville is a very bike-unfriendly city and riding isn’t really an option for most people who live out in the suburbs.
A friend in California reports that his bike shop is having its best year ever.