I just saw this little video from Norco and Ryan Leech and wanted to share it. In the video Ryan talks about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and how something as "little" as using your bike to do tasks like running around will help make you healthier. As someone who does a short daily commute, I have noticed that it makes a lot of things in my world easier and I feel better for doing it.
Check out the video inside,
Ryan Leech talks about how commuting or getting about on your bike can improve your health and lifestyle:
norco.pinkbike.com
Also, most municpal public transit system are not yet user-friendly towards the integration of bicycles with public transit, further compounding the problem for longer distance commutes.
You have to ride between the white line and the curb. an area of about 2 feet across. Its a lose/lose situation for everyone. You get mad at the riders for sticking out into the road, but then as a rider myself I get mad at the cars for not moving over!
Action needs to be taken. If we want to save more gas and be greener we need to ride our bikes more, its a fact. Over in europe you can ride your bike almost anywhere in your town. If not, then you can hop on the train! This country is just very mistaken in their transportation sector.
Municipalities need to be more proactive about this stuff. "If you build it, they will come". Build the bike lanes and people will start to use them. If I had safe route to cycle to work, I would definitely cycle for at least 7 months a year (cycling more than 5km when it's below -15c is a bit extreme, IMO).
That said, theres only so much fun to be had on the road anyways. My faveorite part about commuting on a bike is finding your own ways around! All the fun that can be had between points A and B...
Let's go on 1world2wheels web site. Ride free ride hard, Tama.
Nonetheless I'll keep on commuting no matter what.
There are hundreds of bike paths in and around the city, many of them seperated completely from traffic. They even have special traffic lights for bikes in some places. Then there is the Bixi bike rental program, I believe it was the first of its kind in North America, and now has spread all over the world.
Also, every bus/metro station has bike parking close by, and bikes can even be brought onto the train as long as it is not rush hour, which does suck for people who want to take the bike and metro to work, but is understandable when you look at how crowded a merto car can be in the morning. I think Quebec is leading the way in Canada in terms of bike friendly infrastructure. Sure there a flaws, but at least they are taking the first steps, it can't be easy trying to retrofit a city designed around the automobile to be bike friendly, many cities in Canada could learn from their example.
At the end of the day as long as were not flying through crowds of people doing 20mph we should just do what the f*ck we want. Im sorry but i dont know about the rest of the world, but over here all pigs just harras anyone they can to make an easy arrest. [usually because most coppa's were bullied in school, hence the reason for them becoming pigs so they feel like they now have power]
My message to everyone would be.... Remain respectfull,... Only show the same respect to others that they show you!! I.E, if some 1 is giving you shit just for riding on what they call "A footpath" tell them to get f*cked and ride on.
But dont be abusive when its not nessercary
Spread the word!
And on my way home I can hit up some world class singletrack or do some hill climbs or sprint training if I don't have much time. Come the weekend I am ready for the dirt.
Once upon a time in Sydney I got doored - I hit it so hard I twisted the car's chassis and wrote the car off. I'm quite proud of that. Usually the car writes my bike off. And often me too.
Safe journeys folks!
I'll give it a shot again once the evenings are brighter. There's a plan to open up a couple of cycling corridors in the city so hopefully these will make things safer. It's gets your adrenaline going alright dodging buses and taxis and men in white vans
when they are on bikes. It's so that a driver doesn't try and "share" the lane with the
cyclist ie. clip them with a mirror
and i average 20 mph
is that any good???
have a nice day