I'm having the usual hilariously good time bicycling. What strikes me as hilarious is the people who "feel sorry" for someone they assume is poor or otherwise unable to drive, and has to resort to the "lowly" bicycle. Meanwhile I'm tearing around getting twice as much done errand wise, with half the aggravation and in half the time, as anyone with a car, all with a huge grin to the beat of my favorite SKA and Reggae tunes by handlebar mini-speakered bike stereo. Since I am functionally deaf,* this helps those around me be aware a bicyclist is approaching or nearby, and this sound I broadcast gently has helped tremendously with my safety. I swear by the versatile and ultra-durable Sony Walkman WM-GX221. The delightful tunes it pumps into the air from its tiny but powerful speakers, all driven by a "play" button and two solar-charged AA batteries, adds a huge margin of safety as folks around me hear me present or approaching. I get my chores done safely and quickly, and I get tons of fun exercise and sun and fresh air, all at the same time. This particular Walkman can also easily be turned into recording from playing, to "accidentally" but legally tape conversations with police officers who "encourage bicycling" by attempting to prohibit it or viciously restrict it. It also is not very vulnerable to theft from a bike because audio tapes are "obsolete" and you can easily sabotage the appearance of the unit to make it look worthless or dysfunctional, when in fact it works great as a compact AM/FM stereo including cassette auto-off with dual stereo speakers and recording abilities. *By pressing the :"record" button, with a record-able tape set to "pause," the built-in microphone on this unit will also feed headphones so I can use this device as an assisted listening setup.
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Young drivers prove every day that they have the ability to be much better and sharper at the wheel, than old drivers. Definitions of young and old aside here, it’s important to notice older drivers suffer greatly from such things as hearing loss, vision loss (especially peripheral vision), memory loss (which pedal is the brake, and which is the accelerator?), reduced response time and impaired muscle control. And a recent insurance industry study revealed, not surprisingly, that even teenage drivers make driving safely a terrific habit, and an easy chore - UNLESS they have even ONE friend or guest in the car with them, in which case they collapse from the best driver category, to the worst driver category because of what I will call FATAL DISTRACTION! The insurance industry study clearly documented a VIRTUAL DOUBLING of accident rates when a young driver has friends; in the car. The study was conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, reported in the Washington Post in February of 2005, and picked up by ABC News. With ONE friend in the vehicle with them, the teenage driver's accident rate per mile doubles. With two friends, it triples. With three friends, it quadruples. Older drivers are clearly better at staying focused on the major job of driving, and are better at shunting out inappropriate distractions, which passengers create at their own risk. Professional drivers of transit vehicles are appropriately isolated from and/or prohibited from engaging in major or even minor conversations with passengers, because of these inherent risk increasing factors which can of course be exacerbated by LARGE vehicles in HEAVY traffic, as transit operators have to cope with. A discipline of not distracting the driver is an excellent one for passengers in any vehicle at any time to develop. Younger folks are much less good at this, and the result has historically been wholesale discrimination against, and punitive insurance rates for, young drivers. A joker in the deck is young drivers are typically handed the keys to a vehicle which is a hand-me-down riddled with safety feature deficiencies and substandard mechanical performance, although the insurance industry has not likely studied this very significant handicap that a young driver starts with. Generally the auto industry has fought tooth and nail against every conceivable mandate in auto safety, from mere dual master cylinder braking systems to basic air bag technology. And the insurance industry has as a rule organized itself on the principle of insuring risk for profit, rather than reducing risk for fewer casualties and claims. Discrimination against the young is one of the insurance industry favorite pastimes, and the only genuine solution here is to restore bicycling and urban transportation systems and make them charming, attractive, and affordable alternatives to distracted drivers at the wheel of dysfunctional private cars. An elder driver in Santa Monica or Santa Barbara, California, in the summer of 2004 killed 15 people and maimed dozens at a farmer's market, in a single "accident" where he "confused the accelerator for the brake." He had great insurance rates and a "good" driving record. Bikers, pedestrians, and all others beware, elder drivers like this most often ply the streets with their funky old and dangerous cars in daylight non-commute hours, ("safe" times.) Many of them are multi-medicated and approaching blindness and deafness.
The in-your-dash plastic flower vase in the new VW Beetle is helping that impractical, dangerous and unreliable two-door car sell like hotcakes. Strange how many folks will buy a car based on cuteness rather than practicality? Cars have become a primary method of killing all life on Earth, endangering flowers and the insects that pollinate them, due to global warming and the changes to photosynthesis global warming includes. Two-door cars are particularly impractical, except for giving Grandpa a hernia trying to get in and out of the back seat. They are, however, particularly effective at "dooring" bicyclists since the two doors are usually much bigger than those on a four-door car. The placement of a flower vase in a car is not a new idea. A few luxury vehicles of the past would have them for the benefit of the well-to-do. They were mounted on a doorjamb in the rear of the car for the enjoyment of the owner who is being chauffeured. They were not placed on the dash to add to the menu of distractions drivers now have to cope with. Putting a flower vase under the driver's nose is asking for trouble. How many pedestrians will die because of drivers arranging flowers at the wheel? How many dollars will flow as a result of personal injury settlements when reflections from a bright silk flower on a windshield cause a driver to reduce a bicyclist or pedestrian to road-kill? Putting a fake plastic flower vase in a car dash is a particularly tasteless idea. It's sort of like putting a sequin on a rat's asshole. Society is rapidly descending into an Autogeddon with the auto industry building three new cars for every person born. You can beat this Car-tastrophic system. Stay healthy, trim, shrewd and smiling with a sophisticated bicycle. You may move at a tortoise-pace in a hare-spring world, but remember who won the race. Jim Doherty is a raconteur and bike radical who sometimes rides with a giant peace symbol in his bike's front wheel. He lives in the "Baja Rockridge" neighborhood of Oakland. This article originally appeared in The-Edge, Gar Smith's (of Earth Island Institute.org) online publication. Cyclonaut Jim Doherty proudly helped tow a dead SUV through the streets of San Francisco as part of the Bluewater Network's contingent in the 2003 San Francisco Pride Parade. An estimated 750,000 spectators looked on and cheered.
While it is wonderful to see novel, hi-tech vehicles capable of getting terrific mileage, these "new, improved" autos only exacerbate the problems of gridlock, population growth, car manufacturing and mining pollution, rubber, toxins, and old car disposal. Not to mention the death and dismemberment caused by streets littered and crowded with uninsured, drunk, sleepy, distracted, dizzy, tipsy, stoned, medicated, eating, drinking, smoking, cell-phoning angry, deaf, road-raged or just plain crazy drivers that continue to plague society. Studies show about one in 50 drivers today are driving drunk, but perhaps 2 out of 3 are driving with some medicine and/or another that may impair driving ability. But beware the DISTRACTED driver. Auto supply stores are now specialize in fireworks type car stereos called "kickers" or "thumpers" loud enough to "light up" a whole neighborhood. And for just $299, you can have installed a CD/DVD television screen that folds neatly out of the dashboard. With a 7"-square monitor, you're ready to watch those priceless Hee-Haw reruns while you're eating pizza, drinking a beverage, talking on the cell phone, smoking a cigarette and making a lane change. These "aftermarket" car accessories are completely illegal for manufacture in a car, for the obvious horrendous distraction they can cause a driver - but Car Stereo specialty shops are selling them like hotcakes. I'm not sure the fold-out DVD/TV screen will fold back into the dash before the paramedics come to pry dead hands off a steering wheel. If it is still dangling from the dash, cops will have a major clue what caused the accident. This TV-and/or laptop at the wheel stuff has caused a huge jump in accidents nationwide, and insurance rates are beginning to spike to reflect this. The enthusiasm for "bio-fueled" autos and the illogic of feeding food crops to cars in a world bristling with starving people evolving heinous diseases because they ARE starving, well, it boggles my mind. It's crucial to note that two-thirds of a car's pollution is produced during its manufacture. Getting 10% (20%? NOT 40%, see next paragraph) better tailpipe mileage is only reduces a fraction of the last third. If the CO2 from the new tailpipes was not colorless and environmentalists could see their own carbon output, they would faint. And hypercar buyer, what is your former car's tailpipe still doing today? Polluting by any chance? CBS NATIONAL NEWS REPORTED, MAY 28,2004, THAT THE HYPER CARS ARE HYPE-FOR-CARS OFTEN, EPA MILEAGE ESTIMATES POSTED ON ALL NEW VEHICLES ARE OPTIMISTIC BUT FOR UNKNOWN REASONS PROVE TO BE WILDLY OPTIMISTIC; CONSUMERS UNION (CU) REPORTS CITY MILEAGE ON THE HONDA CIVIC HYBRID IS JUST 26 MPG, NOT THE EPA'S STATED 48 MPG IT'S ADVERTISED WITH. AND THE DARLING OF EVERY ENVIRONMENTALIST'S CAR, THE TOYOTA PRIUS, GOT A (CU) CITY MILEAGE OF ONLY 35, AGAINST THE EPA/ADVERTISED CLAIM OF 60! Another hidden cost of cars is that (especially here in California) city planners and architects take it for granted that people want to live and work directly above, or surrounded by, their gas tanks and cars. Buildings are routinely constructed with a very weak first story, so cars can drive in, out, and around the toothpick-type legs buildings are then perched on. This design almost guarantees disastrous outcomes when the ground shakes. The Northridge, California quake cost $25 billion, most due to buildings that collapsed into garage space. How many similar complexes can you find in your community?
A primary misconception that folks have about bicycling is that it's too dangerous. So they prefer to continue killing each other (and the planet) with tailpipes and wars for oil. Basic laws of physics apply Accidents occurring at the 25mph or less speed bikes usually travel are unlikely to be seriously injurious; Accidents at the 40mph or more speeds cars travel at, are likely fatal or devastating, this is proved on US streets thousands of times every day. I have been seriously injured, but only from having a set of car keys, instead of a bike. My inoperable spinal injury was a direct result of my first car-jacking incident, where I was run over by my own car. And I was car-jacked a second time in the summer of 2002, by some kids who knocked me unconscious in my home office for the primary purpose of getting my car keys from me. I have had certainly dozens of mishaps in my 50 years of bicycling, but not one of them came even close to causing the life-threatening injuries my possession of a set of car keys produced on those fateful evenings. It's important to recognize that bike accidents are usually trivial. I often regard such mishaps as a free chiropractic or Rolfing session. But when parking, for the sake of smarts, convenience, and luck, I always hang my bike helmet on the handlebar. Then it HAS to be put somewhere to get rolling.
My decision to leave my car in the garage and start bicycling everywhere has made impulse buying and conspicuous consumption unnecessary -- or at least unlikely -- as there is a happy limit to how much cargo a bike can carry. (Never mind that I bought a bike trailer last year. Even without it, I often load up my bike with four full sacks of groceries in about the same time it takes to load a car or SUV with the same.) The bottom line is, even the fanciest bike will quickly pay for itself in saved healthcare costs and saved impulse-buying expenses. True, I sometimes have to ask the guy or gal at the grocery store to help hold open each of the oversize waterproof saddlebags, as it's tricky to drop something as large as two grocery sacks in. This means that I occasionally have to talk to strangers -- something that fewer and fewer people do. If you are strapped into a gas-burning auto, it is rather difficult to carry on a conversation (other than by symbolic gestures) when the stereo in the car next to you is designed to rattle windows for a 3-block radius. Have you ever noticed that people enclosed in cars are told never to trust those also in cars around them -- to "drive defensively" and expect the worst from every other driver? Whereas the opposite occurs in public transit or on a bike, one HAS to trust those around one. Smiles and conversation with strangers is what it's all about, and this is a reassuring fact, an opening and educating experience of sharing. Being enclosed in a car is a closing, competing, and fearing experience as sickening as the fumes from the tailpipe - and remember even the fanciest new car has an air intake near the tailpipe of the car in front of yours. Studies have shown SUV buyers are among the most fearful as well as selfish of drivers. Detroit's marketing psychology caters to the "at war with the world" mentality, just look at the HUMMER options. (Also look at the HUMMER's repair history. It has one of the highest warranty repair/recall records ever in the history of four wheeled vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal.) The very concept of the private automobile has eroded trust and civility -- just one of the myriad hidden costs of cars. And sociologists have reported that cities that have maintained their streetcar systems have sharply lower rates of road rage. A famous car free city in Morocco boasts Arab and Jews living happily as neighbors together. Cars have never penetrated its streets, too narrow since medieval times to "welcome" the private gas powered vehicle.
Some good news: Bicycling is hot. In many cities, a bike is a must-have accessory for hipsters, while in the ‘burbs spandex-clad weekend warriors rule the roads as they imitate the Tour de France. Major cities around the world have launched bike-sharing programs, and in the US the number of people commuting by bike has gone up 60 percent in the last decade. Whether they’re eager for more exercise, passionate about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or just desperate to stay out of gridlock, more and more people are hopping onto their bikes.
Bicycle designed by Olivier Guin from the Noun Project Sources: Copenhagenzine, League of American Bicyclists, CNN 3/3/2013 Amsterdam: The Venice of the North is consistently ranked the world’s top city for bikeability by cyclist organizations. Biking is ingrained in the city’s culture, and the streets are packed with cyclists. The city’s pervasive 30 km/hour speed limit slows down automobile traffic and helps keep cyclists safe. Portland: Consistently at or near the top for American cities, Portland boasts 260 miles of bike lanes. Nearly 10 percent of Portland residents commute by bike, and the city has a vibrant cycling community that hosts an estimated 2,100 bike events annually. The city’s Create-a-Commuter program delivers bikes, equipment, and lessons on safety to low-income residents. Rio de Janeiro: As part of its civic improvements in preparation for hosting the World Cup and the Olympics, Rio has added bike lanes to the boulevards along its famed beaches. The city is steadily expanding its network of bike lanes and has launched a popular bike-sharing program. Copenhagen: Copenhagen, like many other European cities, is doing its best to challenge Amsterdam for the title as the world’s most bike-friendly city. At least a third of the city’s residents commute to work by bike, and the local government is aiming to get that figure to 50 percent. The Danish capital stands out with its network of two-wheels-only bicycle “superhighways.” Tokyo: This mega-city of 13 million people is working to make the streets safe for cyclists. Motorists are required to take a rigorous training class on how to drive around cyclists, and the city is consistently adding protected bike lanes. Since 30 percent of Tokyo commuters get around with a combination of bike and rail, the expansion of the city’s subway to 24-hour service is expected to boost bike ridership. Source: http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/four_wheels_bad_two_wheels_good/ ABC's evening national news, Friday, February 6, 2004: The United States has 53,285,336 children. Among these kids, in the last year counted: 6001 died in motor vehicle accidents. 1109 deaths from drowning’s 586 were killed by fires and burns 45 were murdered in the course of 115 abductions per year; this is a total of less than ONE child murdered by abduction, per STATE, with 120 times that number killed per state by motor vehicle per year. These statistics, if one can trust ABC news team sources, would seem to indicate that there is a slight overemphasis on, and news reporting of, child abductions. It startles me that the statistics on abductions are so low, given the looks of milk cartons and especially local newscasts in this country. (Auto accidents have killed more than twice as many people in the US as have been killed in all the wars in US history.) However, it's crucial to realize that those newscasts are brought to us by the likes primarily of General Motors, Ford, Lexus, VW, Toyota, Honda, Exxon, Shell, Midas, AAMCO, ad nauseum. Stories of childhood abductions make for sensational news, yet blood on car bumpers and pavement is so common as to be deemed not newsworthy, unless the numbers on any given accident are particularly high. Children are prevented from getting healthy exercise outdoors as parents are traumatized and frozen by these damn sensational newscasts. The children end up hopelessly obese and needing glasses from playing constantly with indoor only video games but the parent then feels comfortable that the child is "safe" indoors. It's interesting to note the sales of video and computer games now gross more revenue than all Hollywood movie box office receipts. I'm not sure where the notion of entitlement to feel comfortable at all times comes from, but it has nothing to do with the real world. A week ago today, I had a healthy looking young woman over to my Baja Rockridge residence announce flatly that although she's taken personal security training, there isn't a single neighborhood in the entire half a million citizen city of Oakland (which has some fabulous highbrow neighborhoods) where she would feel comfortable walking three blocks. Where DOES this implied entitlement to feel 100% comfortable 100% of the time come from? It is surely part of the obesity crisis that is making the US the laughing stock of public health officials all over the world. Attacks on children for the things adults do tend to rub me the wrong way. Wilma Chan, my assemblyperson, made a splash of big news last week by introducing a bill to punish the child operators of those hideous, noisy, highly polluting two-stroke engine’ d motorized scooters a total of two children have been killed by in California last year. Apparently her proposals are strictly a matter of fining and regulating the kids, there was no suggestion in the newscasts of a simple ban on such ridiculously bad and dangerous motor vehicles that are incapable of even reaching speeds similar to those of a bicycle, the scooters top out at about 20-25 mph on level ground. While I applaud Chan's efforts and particularly the punishments for the kid's tendency to show off their power by deliberately sabotaging the already trivial mufflers on such motorized "vehicles," a genuine crackdown would involve outright banishment of the sales of such nuisance/gross polluting vehicles. The raw gasoline that invariably gets spilled, leaked, and burped out unburned by these toys from hell puts the kids and the local environment at major risk for heinous toxic exposure, too. As a matter of pathetic statistics, the oil industry with its ships and tank farms and gas stations manages to spill and leak directly into local environments and aquifers, the equivalent of ONE THOUSAND Exxon Valdez oil spills EVERY YEAR. (Source, Earth Island Journal, www.earthisland.org) And on an even more local level, I noticed something on my bike ride(s) up and down Oakland's Telegraph Avenue lately: A store called PRIMETIME, which specializes in selling only the most hideous artificially flavored, chemically dyed, inadvertently or deliberately genetically tampered, pesticide-ed and chemically fertilized plastic wrapped and cardboard boxed corporate food in exchange only for WIC vouchers. This company I believe made its name in selling pet food and is now trying to foist these awful unnatural foods on the poor children who subsist on WIC vouchers - the store refuses to accept cash for its "food," this is strictly a WIC operation. They do sell some refrigerated Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) enhanced milk and also room temperature eggs, but that's about it, not a single bit of fresh produce or unprocessed/organic natural food can be had from this store. Is this any way to raise healthy kids??? Between stuff like that and the toxic soup of ongoing diesel bus and unregulated or under enforced diesel truck emissions in poor neighborhoods, it is a testament to the resiliency of the human body that ANY child manages to grow up healthy in such a context. I offer a prayer of thanks to my Canadian Baptist Mother, who, thank God, did not use WIC vouchers nor smoke, drink, or use/abuse any drugs while I was in gestation. Pretty sweet considering she has finally confided I was sort of an unplanned child!!! I guess this accounts in part for my lifelong pattern of surprising folks with stuff like this. I am a childless bachelor, not the type to type up stats like this, but what the hey. I studied statistics and they are too frequently ignored or distorted but the truth resides in them, more than in rhetoric, and I believe God lives somewhere in the house of truths. "Gasoline rushes in where bicyclists fear to tread"....Jim's truth for today....Notes: *Katie Alvord, "Divorce Your Car," 2000 "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps few of you know there are only two countries in the UN that have refused to sign the UN convention on the rights of the child. One of them is Somalia, the other is the United States. This has been true for years, and I recently checked that the info is still accurate. It's amazing to me the number of ways children's health is compromised, and their cancer risk maximized, by our fossil fooled America, and the extreme forms this takes in rubber-wheeled California. Recent studies show diesel soot particulates cause not only lung cancer but also especially in those below 30, brain tumors and cancer!
We live in a state and time where piles of old rubber tires become so huge as to be called a mountain, where internal heat from the heap causes it to self-ignite, and the crews that put out the oil well fires in Kuwait get called in to contain it; headlines in California, July 1997 or 8. Even those special teams did not claim with certainty they could contain it, and proposals to just let the old tires burn themselves out were taken as the likely approach. Thank you, busses of Alameda/Contra Costa County Transit for your contribution to this mess. Your plan to withhold desperately needed light rail for the East Bay, for another 20 years of diesels, should be shredded immediately due to the new reports linking diesel soot to children's asthma and twenty-something's brain cancers. Recycling rubber is yet another issue; children are now routinely exposed to massive styrene emissions (it's what rubber exudes from the day it’s made - now from petroleum, not rubber trees) as the play mats under playground equipment and surrounding most any K-12 school facility dose them with styrene quite handily. It saves the school district the cost of a gardener's paycheck I guess, no need for grass, just old tires in the form of black rubber mats. The Frog Creek playground for kids in my North Oakland neighborhood is a good example - plastic lumber for almost everything, and the "playground" directly showered with toxins from the roaring highway 24 overpass it's all built almost directly underneath. Too bad styrene emissions combine with a deadly synergy to exponentially multiply the toxic risk, when the styrene is combined with diesel bus and truck emissions. CBS News' 60 minutes recently reported the problem that after about 10 years, when the styrene has evaporated from the rubber, rubber tires become brittle and can explode catastrophically even if they have as much tread as when new. There has been an appropriate call for expiration dates on tires, and in fact there are manufacturer's codes on the INSIDE (i.e., under the car side) of the tires, but these codes need translating by the manufacturers, presumably via their websites. Also one of the best auto-related websites is www.autosafety.org, operated by the Center for Auto Safety in Washington, DC. There you can find recall/defect/secret warranty info on all makes of cars, along with info or links to tire problems/recalls. There are actually plenty of folks like me, who own a car and do not use it much. My most crucial tire exploded in a place on Highway 17 called blood alley, on my way to Earth Day in Santa Cruz, April 2003. Luckily I lived to tell about it, and a to tell a few other things like this. Twenty-something’s also become victims quickly of extremely high insurance rates and heinous crippling or killing auto accidents, because they are often given hand me down cars lacking such luxuries as brakes, signals, lights, air bags, or even well designed seat belts. The insurance industry alleges kids are bad drivers without acknowledging they are trying to operate cars that affirmatively handicap safety and work against any driver regardless of age. This is a nasty form of age discrimination. Parents understandably have a way of keeping the modern, safe car for themselves when they give their kid a car that works against safety reliably. Getting junk cars that run off the streets entirely is another subject no one wants to discuss, although in Southern California programs exist to help owners of such old unsafe gross polluting cars to "cash them out" by purchase programs run by the Air Quality Management district. According to Amory Lovins (surf his Rocky Mountain Institute website, rmi.org) about three fifths of the USA's air pollution puffs and spurts from the dirtiest, oldest one fifth of our cars. This is too much for one blog so I call it quits for now and hop on the bicycle to work off my angst, and keep the circulation to my head going strong. Best to each of you and pray for a society that honors its kids with safe and clean and green playgrounds, as well as safe and convenient transit that reduces the pathetic pattern of every kid trying to have and drive a hand me down car. Show savvy and flexibility in your travel plans, and remember to root for bike routes! "Flexible People are Disciples of Life." - Lao There is ONE thing public transit in the United States of Amerikka does better, BY FAR, than any other transit system in the WORLD. It's important to understand the basic premise of public transportation in the United States today. Forget any notion of getting anywhere efficiently or safely, unless you are on a pair of steel rails (fat chance, and protect your eardrums even then.) The very purpose of public transportation in the US today is, quite simply, to send people screaming, crying, hand wringing and running to the nearest car sales lot, swearing that come hell and high water, (begin preparing today for both)that they will get, buy, and have, their own car. This is enforced with a vengeance when transit strikes cripple the already utterly marginalized system of public transit in the US, further marginalized and trivialized by each and every Republican administration. I am pro-union and understand the power to strike is the most fundamental tool of the unions, but this recipe plays right into the hands of the global auto industry. Schedules are slashed and fares exponential-ed at such a rate, the vortex downward spiral goes you are dumped off the bus a mile from your stop owing more fare than you paid already cuz the fare was raised and the route cut during your ride! Elected officials, please note: Public transit systems are rather easier to build and maintain, than fragile pipelines across hostile nations. Dear Readers, please note: It IS possible, healthy, and highly desirable that you visit a BICYCLE shop, not a tailpipes/salesmen/gridlock lot, in event of transit strikes. Health and energy independence are not free entitlements, but a nice fringe benefit of bicycling, which incidentally is a method too of supporting public transit when transit agencies appropriately integrate bikes with transit vehicles. The extraordinary bike racks on the trains of Stuttgart, Germany are a good example of what bike activists in this country need to lobby for. Local ordinances criminalizing bicycles to the point of "use a bike - go to jail" as per Berkeley, California codes, could also use some monkey-wrenching.
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By James DMake-it-home-safe MANTRA: When dealing with traffic, it's better to be patient than to become a patient; AND - A Sailboat is to a Polluting Cruise Ship what a bicycle is to a smokin' Hummer. I know bikes are beautiful but I’M not backing off until bikes are bountiful and bikers have greater strength in numbers. CategoriesArchives
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