On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:17:05 -0500, PeterH <[email hidden]> wrote:
.Mike Vandeman wrote: . .>.> .>.Ergo: to own a mountain bike is to own an SUV? If one does not own
an .>.SUV, then mayhap, one is prevented from owning a mountain bike? .> .>You can OWN one, but if
you want to USE it off-road, you have to carry it on .>your SUV. .> .It doesn't function? It must be
carried? Then why in the name of fetid .dingo kidneys would one own such a thing?
Because they are LAZY.
.>I notice that you didn't deny it. .> .> .> .It actually requires an SUV to transport a mountain
bike? Just how big .are these things, anyway? And what if one lives where "off-road" .activity
starts at one's front door? Or back door (as in my case)? And .yet, although I spend a great deal of
time in the north Maine woods, far .from any pavement, development or other outward form of
'civilization,'
. I neither own a mountain bike nor even know of nor have encountered .while off-road anyone who
does have one. I can't deny that this .particular form of degrading the universe doesn't occur. I
can deny that .I have any connection with it or knowledge of it. As I've suggested .before, in the
face of the documented ills we face and the the planet .faces because of us, mountain biking is
pretty small potatoes.
8 million prople out ripping up nature every week cause a significant amount of damage.
.How about the responder who says he uses his purely to commute to work? .Did the manufactuer's
lawyers force him to sign an agreement only to use .the thing in areas where you're about to become
overwrought? . .Pig'n'pepper shortly. . .Pete H
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I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to humans ("pure habitat"😉. Want to
help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
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