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"Andy Gee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

...My LBS is doing a
brisk business selling and installing jump seats and pegs & inter-saddles,
especially to single guys, and there's a waiting list to rent pedicabs.

What's an inter-saddle?

Quoted message said:

The question is, after the strike, how many will keep with it?

Almost none, unfortunately, if history is any guide. Still, one could hope
that the combination of high gas prices (currently down somewhat),
terrifically high heating bills (this month $269 for me; same month last
year $161) might have the side benefit of getting more people to adopt a
healthy habit. (Plus, more cyclists means safer cycling.)

I ("Mike Kruger" <[email hidden]>😉 asked:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

What's an inter-saddle?

Deciding to Google this, I got the following references:

from alt.revisionism:
"Where is another chignon or fanning immediately? Thickly this
and sure another, denying lower or faster. Until half a veneer it
was no sensationalism inter saddle, all sash minus all tranquility;
either over us it satirically bungled the exclusively merciful
mountain pending their unthinking finish, a milquetoast what had
exposited respecting his dweller."

from soc.culture.african.american:
"With half every pentagon he was a technique inter saddle, half
page nor half proprietorship; or underneath me it luckily captured
a hotly irremediable burn on their artful loon, a dumbbell that had
drifted inside mine fraud. Have we launched him?"

So, it's obvious Andy's inter saddle is some sort of New Yorker thing.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mike Kruger said:

Quoted message said:

The question is, after the strike, how many will keep with it?

Almost none, unfortunately, if history is any guide. Still, one could hope
that the combination of high gas prices (currently down somewhat),
terrifically high heating bills (this month $269 for me; same month last
year $161) might have the side benefit of getting more people to adopt a
healthy habit. (Plus, more cyclists means safer cycling.)

After the last transit strike here in Vancouver BC, I was
finding abandoned bikes all over the place. I believe my
current main mount is one of them. The frame, anyways.
The rest of it has undergone a lot of swappage since then.

cheers,
Tom

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In article <[email hidden]>, Andy Gee

() said:

The question is, after the strike, how many will keep with it?

When London Underground and regular train services were simultaneously
clobbered by strikes in the summer of 1988, a lot of people took to
bikes. You could tell who the newbies were, as they were togged up in
team replica kit - at the time, it was positively de rigeur to dress up
like a refugee from the peloton when going clubbing - but had so little
notion of the use of gears that it caused one to ponder how they managed
all that stick-waggling business in the 3-series.

Anyway, when the dust settled and the trains came back, they all
disappeared. The biggest boosts to cycling in London in recent years
have been the Congestion Charge and the July 7th bombs.

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
Historians' Right To Work Campaign - We Demand A Continuing Supply Of
History!

Andy Gee said:

The question is, after the strike, how many will keep with it?

The transit strike in Philadelphia a couple of months ago had no
perceptible impact on cycle commuting afterwards, AFAICT.

RichC

Andy Gee said:

There's a threat of a transit strike in NYC starting on Friday. Since the
last threat (didn't materialize) in 2002, we've spent x billions of dollars
getting first class bike facilitities on each of the four lower East River
bridges, plus greenways and bike lanes all over. The typical interboro
commute is about seven miles. Under transit strike conditions, it will not
be possible to drive that distance in under an hour, not counting the time
it takes to collect three passengers: All of Manhattan below 96th St will
be an HOV-4 zone.

Last time, His Honor the Mayor Michael Bloomberg was laughed at for buying
a bike, personally, to prepare for the strike. If this thing really
happens, we'll get a chance to see who gets laughed it. My LBS is doing a
brisk business selling and installing jump seats and pegs & inter-saddles,
especially to single guys, and there's a waiting list to rent pedicabs.

The question is, after the strike, how many will keep with it?

--ag

I often commute by bike but the conditions predicted for Friday do not
make it one of the days I would normally do so. Thursday into Friday
is supposed to dump a lot of rain and slush on the area, and it's
going to be in the mid thirties (F) and raining in the morning.

Cold and rain is my least favorite conditions for biking (wow, what a
surprise) and the street are going to be packed with folks walking all
over the place. Not good conditions. I think I'll work from home.

But for those who do buy a bike, I look forward to picking it up free
or cheap in a few months. Most will be Kmart specials I'm sure.

"Mike Kruger" <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

What's an inter-saddle?

It's an extra saddle mounted forward of the seat post intended for a small
person or a child. I've only seen them in New York, as one of the options
for parents to take their kids to school before riding to work. Very
popular here.

--ag