Mitchell, Good points but of note is that Lance's new bike shop in Austin, Mellow Johnnys is all about the Commuter bike experience..with some racing...but commuter focused.... http://www.mellowjohnnys.com/ Say what you will but the guy electrifies the attention that the industry gets....the tour of Australia that just finished estimated 10 times the public turnout this year from last...amazing...there is a tie in...his advocacy at his shop and for the sport/transit option and oh btw..the connection to Trek, whose urban bike movement is in the works...well let's just say timing may be on our side very very soon to promote the key "Education" component of safer cycling for all...teamed up with the increased "engineering" and "enforcement" components (et tous Platinum Bike report?) we might be onto a better way to help our advocacy goals. Having said that, I am offering free volunteering service for a ride/flight and a cot at the tour of california next month...the buzz on his appearance, and many top flight teams, is huge...and oh yes...its california..and I need to be somewhere warm..and soon! Best regards, Troy
Troy Thiel First Weber West Towne Over 300 Properties and $60 Million Sold! 429 Gammon Place Madison, WI 53719 office direct:(608) 662-7078 fax: 833-3672 cell: 347-9670 home: 238-7677 home fax: 238-7655 email: [email protected] or [email protected] website: TroyThiel.firstweber.com --- On Sun, 1/25/09, Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] creating a mindset...informing/marketing who cyclists are? To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 10:51 PM I have great admiration for Lance Armstrong, but I don't think his status as a national athletic hero does much to advance our road-sharing issues. If anything, Armstrong's prominence tends to pigeonhole biking as an an elite athletic pursuit, a pastime for impossibly fit young people on expensive bikes wearing funny clothes. I have nothing against bike racing -- I like it as a spectator sport -- but we need to promote biking as a useful activity for people of all ages, body types and levels of fitness. The people who need to share the road with motorists might be training for a race, but they're more likely riding to work or class or the grocery store, or taking the kids to preschool. To promote normal, low-key, biking by ordinary people, and to make the activity visible to the rest of the community, I think it would help to organize a "slow bike movement" in Madison. This sort of movement apparently exists in other parts of the world; they even have a blog (http://theslowbicycle.blogspot.com) and a Facebook page. Perhaps we should try some organized slow biking around here. Think about it (no hurry, of course). [email protected] wrote: > On the topic of the potential effectiveness of marketing: > > Lance Armstrong - I'll bet most people in America know who he is and see > him in a positive light. So have our road sharing issues been addressed > as a result of Americans getting to know this cyclist? > i/bikies-danenet.org > > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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