Comments on: Beijing: Kites and jets http://clevercycles.com/2006/04/02/family-bike-revolution-amsterdam-copenhagen-portland-beijing/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:54:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cleverchimp blog » Blog Archive » Beijing: Getting lost and getting home http://clevercycles.com/2006/04/02/family-bike-revolution-amsterdam-copenhagen-portland-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-983 Cleverchimp blog » Blog Archive » Beijing: Getting lost and getting home Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:32:23 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=103#comment-983 [...] Kites and jets [...] [...] Kites and jets [...]

]]> By: Ted Howard http://clevercycles.com/2006/04/02/family-bike-revolution-amsterdam-copenhagen-portland-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Ted Howard Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:38:07 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=103#comment-842 As a kiteflier/xtracyclist I liked the kite;bike too! Just explain the ramifications of peak oil, bio-diversity collapse, climate change, etc, and folks will come around to seeing that bikes are appropriate and great,.....and I don't need to pay an annual road registration/license fee or get a 6 monthly warrant of fitness, or pay extra insurance, or squeal at the climbing petrol prices at the pumps, and I stay fit, and...... Regards Ted Howard Nelson New Zealand As a kiteflier/xtracyclist I liked the kite;bike too!
Just explain the ramifications of peak oil, bio-diversity collapse, climate change, etc, and
folks will come around to seeing that bikes are appropriate and great,…..and I don’t need to pay an annual
road registration/license fee or get a 6 monthly warrant of fitness, or pay extra insurance,
or squeal at the climbing petrol prices at the pumps, and I stay fit, and……

Regards
Ted Howard
Nelson New Zealand

]]> By: Martina http://clevercycles.com/2006/04/02/family-bike-revolution-amsterdam-copenhagen-portland-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Martina Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:53:15 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=103#comment-749 It's the ex-smoker thing...you are always just a thought away from your next cigarette. As a person who only co-owned an old Mazda truck for 6 month of her life I sometimes lust after driving a car...but don't forget the bike is not the only way to get places, take a bus or train for a change or spring for a cab as a treat. PS: Cab sounds weird in this connection -- 2 tons of steel driven by one person to transport another person...I wish there would be more Rikshas!! It’s the ex-smoker thing…you are always just a thought away from your next cigarette. As a person who only co-owned an old Mazda truck for 6 month of her life I sometimes lust after driving a car…but don’t forget the bike is not the only way to get places, take a bus or train for a change or spring for a cab as a treat.

PS: Cab sounds weird in this connection — 2 tons of steel driven by one person to transport another person…I wish there would be more Rikshas!!

]]> By: Caroline http://clevercycles.com/2006/04/02/family-bike-revolution-amsterdam-copenhagen-portland-beijing/comment-page-1/#comment-746 Caroline Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:32:45 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=103#comment-746 I like your <b>kite:bike</b> analogy when it comes to relative cost. I wrote about what I've spent on cycling since I sold my car <a href="http://www.little-package.com/blog/2006/02/economics-of-bicycle-vs-automobile" rel="nofollow">on my blog</a>, and the figures shocked me. I just had to remind myself, "This is my car!" As passionate and happy a cyclist as I try to come across to puzzled drivers, I know I haven't created one convert yet. In fact, more and more I forget about the "costs" of cars and fantasize about owning one again. Yipes! I like your kite:bike analogy when it comes to relative cost. I wrote about what I’ve spent on cycling since I sold my car on my blog, and the figures shocked me. I just had to remind myself, “This is my car!”

As passionate and happy a cyclist as I try to come across to puzzled drivers, I know I haven’t created one convert yet. In fact, more and more I forget about the “costs” of cars and fantasize about owning one again.

Yipes!

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