TOP (06-20-2018)
TOP (06-20-2018)
MAGA MAN (06-20-2018)
I hope your town gets more bike paths and bike lanes.
We don't have winter here, and I never take the scenery and relative solitude for granted. I am also a morning person, and enjoy the sunrise every day on the way to work. There is magic in a sunrise, chap!
I agree that bike is superior in virtually every way to automobile. What percentage of our lives are spent in those tin cans? Frightening to even think about! My employer started a program to pay people to bike to work, and I was tempted. But, even though I am in reasonably good shape for a dude my age, I think riding into the afternoon headwinds would give me a heart attack!
You’ll be fine. Just drop to a lower gear ratio and spin. I once did a two day, 215 mile bike tour that a 90 year old man completed. Half the guys in Masters racing are in their 50’s or 60’s. The important thing is to get a bike suitable for commuting. Buy it from a local bike shop and have them fit you properly. I’d suggest a steel framed touring bike with eyelets for panniers so you can carry shit and high tire clearance so you can add fenders for wet days.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
Also, if you’re commuting over five miles I recommend a modified road bike with drop handle bars and a high spoke count wheels and 25 to 28 ml tires. I do not advise commuting in high traffic except for very short distances. To many assholes who have no compunction about killing you and apathetic police who don’t care if they kill you. If you’re not experienced and don’t know how to ride with the flow of traffic don’t do it. That’s why I stopped. My new digs don’t have a low traffic or low speed route available and no bike lanes. My previous house had safe back roads and residential roads available to get to work.
If you can find a safe route do it. Doing 5 to 10 miles in commuting will keep you reasonably fit and will do wonders for your cardiovascular fitness and keep your weight, blood pressure and blood sugar under control and increase your life expectancy and quality of life.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
Mott the Hoople (06-21-2018)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
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-(Desh)
It depends on the measure. Back in the 80's my boss, then in his late 50's, used to commute with his Buick from his condo in the North End (Boston) to a parking garage one block from our office off of Boston Common, a distance of about a mile, maybe a bit more. His parking space at the condo building cost $150k and he paid $125/ week to the garage. His car ran terrible, and stunk, because it never warmed up enough to heat up the catalytic converters. Between his car insurance, car payment, repair bills, gas, maintenance, and parking costs he would have been far, far better off buying a decent $200 bicycle and commuting that way. On shitty days he could have walked or taken a cab, and rented a car when he wanted to go out of town.
Minister of Truth (06-21-2018)
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