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Dear Matt, What percentage of Americans are truly fit to ride bicycles regularly? Won't that be likely to drop even lower as the average American weight rises even more. And above the weight, who are fit cardiovascularly to get off on a road with a few hills and miles from home? It is one thing to exercise where one can stop if over stressed. Sure many on this list are probably on bikes and say they are neither pictures of fitness or have the teenage weight they once had. But you had better increase the ambulance squads if going out biking is pressed on the general public. Matt, you are simply pressing for more infrastructure for the bicycle elite once again. But you are correct probably in assuming that motorists might associate with motorists and, in fact might be jealous of fit bicyclists whizzing along and wish they could be of that small group. EW Matt Logan wrote: As someone who moved to Madison and more or less stuck to the rules (except for a couple years of critical mass), the largest benefit will be to the safety of bicyclists. Beyond that, I am highly skeptical.I have come to realize that the public perception of bicyclists is largely driven by the simple fact that drivers will excuse the behavior of other drivers, but will criticize identical behavior from bicyclists. The real solution to the perception problem is not better bicyclists, but better bicycling infrastructure that attracts more drivers onto bicycles more frequently. When more drivers are bicyclists too, they tend to see things from a different perspective. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org |
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