Bike Trailers and well hung panniers make bicycling cargo about ten times easier than most folks would imagine. Bicycling your errands is a gift of automatic personal and mental aerobic fitness. It's not necessary at all to wear a backpack, bikes of all types can be outfitted with large capacity rear panniers (saddlebags) or trailers gives a bike better stability and so your cargo capacity can easily match that of a mid-size car. Bicycles are also politically, environmentally, and peacefully correct. You've heard of hyper cars - try a hyper bike, super-light and outfitted well for these purposes. You can buy 10 or 20 of these hi-tech dream bikes for the cash cost of a Civic Hybrid. Yet your savings in insurance, health care, gasoline, tickets/towing/fender-benders and other non-advertised costs of car ownership, including car fanaticism, er financing, not to mention embarrassments of road rage, tragedies of road kill, breakdown repairs, crash repairs, advertising ad nauseum, make these simple truths also very affordable. A low stress lifestyle of quietly and slowly plying car free or car restricted streets, paying perhaps a bit more than the corporate big box retailers charge because you shop locally, it all adds up quickly to huge cash and stress savings. What if biking proves to be twice as easy and ten times as thrifty as you think it is, and driving ten times as difficult and costly as it seems in the "solitary auto" ads? There is much truth to my life experience, bicycling into a better, sweeter, quieter, and more fragrant and relaxed life than can ever be had by a drive-thru experience.
Peace, love, music and wisdom, and in the words of Lao-Tzu, "Give up haste and activity. Close your mouth. Only then will you comprehend the spirit of Tao. Jim z bike blogger - July 28, 2004, celebrating today the beginning of my 51st year of injury free bicycling.
Peace, love, music and wisdom, and in the words of Lao-Tzu, "Give up haste and activity. Close your mouth. Only then will you comprehend the spirit of Tao. Jim z bike blogger - July 28, 2004, celebrating today the beginning of my 51st year of injury free bicycling.