"i like to ride my bicycle......."
i know it seems a strange conception but i accept being shouted at, spat at, thrown misiles at and driven at while i am on my bike. it's all a part of cycling......for now.
common predictions are that the world will run out of oil in 25 years. assuming they are right in the next 5-10 years short journies will have to be made walking or by bicycle and long journies will be essential only.
for 200 years the bycycle has been the first real freedom people get. as a child, remember the first time you went out on your own on your bike, you could cover twice as much ground in the same time, you got to see more of the world and still get home in time for tea. sadly today when you get older; you learn to drive and "grow out of" bicycles into cars, yet the motor car is 18%ish efficient. the bicycle is 90% efficient. i grew out of bicycles when i got a car; then i grew out of the car into to a bicycle.
travel by bike and the passenger to weight ratio is 5/1 by car it is 1/10... and that is being kind to the car. is that really progression? if the rest of you rlife followed that we would all "need" a 5 bedroom house yet people live perfectly well in small flats.
by bicycle you can travel anywhere between 4000-7000 miles on the calorific equivilent of a gallon of unleaded petrol. in the most frugal car you can get today you are looking at about 70 mpg for diesel; and you get to eat a load of pies and not get fat.
seriously, fossil fuel based transport is done (and more worringly the fossil fuel based economy); it cannot survive simply because there is not enough fuel to go 'round. catch the bus and (in reading at least) you are promoting growing fuel crops instead of fuel.... what would you rather do; eat or get to work by bus? or go b y bus and somebody dies of starvation... go by car and you lose on ever angle. ZEV (zero emmisions vehicle)or HPV (human powered vehicle) are your only real choices.
and this from somebody who has 2 cars ans is moving 120 miles from work. i should just kill myself now. although i still will only drive 1000 miles a month.. less than the average.
talk to me in 20 years time.
common predictions are that the world will run out of oil in 25 years. assuming they are right in the next 5-10 years short journies will have to be made walking or by bicycle and long journies will be essential only.
for 200 years the bycycle has been the first real freedom people get. as a child, remember the first time you went out on your own on your bike, you could cover twice as much ground in the same time, you got to see more of the world and still get home in time for tea. sadly today when you get older; you learn to drive and "grow out of" bicycles into cars, yet the motor car is 18%ish efficient. the bicycle is 90% efficient. i grew out of bicycles when i got a car; then i grew out of the car into to a bicycle.
travel by bike and the passenger to weight ratio is 5/1 by car it is 1/10... and that is being kind to the car. is that really progression? if the rest of you rlife followed that we would all "need" a 5 bedroom house yet people live perfectly well in small flats.
by bicycle you can travel anywhere between 4000-7000 miles on the calorific equivilent of a gallon of unleaded petrol. in the most frugal car you can get today you are looking at about 70 mpg for diesel; and you get to eat a load of pies and not get fat.
seriously, fossil fuel based transport is done (and more worringly the fossil fuel based economy); it cannot survive simply because there is not enough fuel to go 'round. catch the bus and (in reading at least) you are promoting growing fuel crops instead of fuel.... what would you rather do; eat or get to work by bus? or go b y bus and somebody dies of starvation... go by car and you lose on ever angle. ZEV (zero emmisions vehicle)or HPV (human powered vehicle) are your only real choices.
and this from somebody who has 2 cars ans is moving 120 miles from work. i should just kill myself now. although i still will only drive 1000 miles a month.. less than the average.
talk to me in 20 years time.
Labels: bikes, transportation
This entry was posted by gradezero, on
18.6.08.
