Quick poll - why do you cycle?

[njf>badger]

>>However, I'm interested in what's more /important/
>>to you in getting out there on your bikes, so
>>please rate (in order of importance) the following
>>reasons for cycling:
>>
>>1. It's fun.
>>
>>2. It's economical.
>>
>>3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost
>> constant time.
>>
>>4. It keeps me fit.
>>
>>5. It's environmentally friendly.
>>
>>6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I
>> pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
>>
>>7. Other (please indicate)
>>
>>You can leave out reasons that don't apply.
>
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[Gawnsoft]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:42:20 +0100, "Wild Wind" <[email protected]>
wrote (more or less):

>Hi,
>
>I'm sure most people on urc cycle for mostly
>the same reasons.
>
>However, I'm interested in what's more /important/
>to you in getting out there on your bikes, so
>please rate (in order of importance) the following
>reasons for cycling:
>
>1. It's fun.
>
>2. It's economical.
>
>3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost
> constant time.
>
>4. It keeps me fit.
>
>5. It's environmentally friendly.
>
>6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I
> pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
>
>7. Other (please indicate)
>
>You can leave out reasons that don't apply.
>
>I'll go first: 1-2-3-4-5.

7. It's faster and less tedious than walking, and has few of the
parking problems of driving.

With a big dollop of 6. I used to particularly enjoy seeing how long
it took busses to get past me, (as opposed to just temprarily
leap-frogging me)

Plus fitness, environment-friendliness, economy.

I've even started cycling for fun, on recent occasions.



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[B.G. Finlay IT Services]

Wild Wind ([email protected]) wrote:
: I'm sure most people on urc cycle for mostly
: the same reasons.
: However, I'm interested in what's more /important/
: to you in getting out there on your bikes, so
: please rate (in order of importance) the following
: reasons for cycling:

1. It's fun.
4. It keeps me fit.

Blair.

 

[Dave Larrington]

Because I can. Ah ah ah!

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[Roos Eisma]

Gawnsoft <[email protected]> writes:

>Plus fitness, environment-friendliness, economy.

Plus fresh air and being outside.

Roos

 

[Richard M]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:42:20 +0100, "Wild Wind" <[email protected]>
wrote:


>
>1. It's fun.
>2. It's economical.
>3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost constant time.
>4. It keeps me fit.
>5. It's environmentally friendly.
>6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
>7. Other (please indicate)

1, 4, 3, 5, 7

7, The satisfaction of climbing a steep hill, stopping at the top to
munch some malt loaf and watching the sunrise. You do not get that
sitting in your car.

I'm not sure about Number 2 at all

Richard

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[Paul - xxx]

Wild Wind vaguely muttered something like ...
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure most people on urc cycle for mostly
> the same reasons.
>
> However, I'm interested in what's more /important/
> to you in getting out there on your bikes, so
> please rate (in order of importance) the following
> reasons for cycling:
>
> 1. It's fun.
>
> 2. It's economical.
>
> 3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost
> constant time.
>
> 4. It keeps me fit.
>
> 5. It's environmentally friendly.
>
> 6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I
> pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
>
> 7. Other (please indicate)
>
> You can leave out reasons that don't apply.
>
> I'll go first: 1-2-3-4-5.
>
> Cheers,

7, Competition and excitement ... 1, 4 ... and any other reason really, but
in no strict order, though not 2 .. it isn't economical at all when you race
... .

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[Burning_Ranger]

Wild Wind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure most people on urc cycle for mostly
> the same reasons.
>
> However, I'm interested in what's more /important/
> to you in getting out there on your bikes, so
> please rate (in order of importance) the following
> reasons for cycling:
>
> 1. It's fun.
>
> 2. It's economical.
>
> 3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost
> constant time.
>
> 4. It keeps me fit.
>
> 5. It's environmentally friendly.
>
> 6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I
> pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
>
> 7. Other (please indicate)
>
> You can leave out reasons that don't apply.
>
> I'll go first: 1-2-3-4-5.
>
> Cheers,

1, 4, 3, 2, 7 (I'm a lazy git when it comes to exercise and walking
anywhere, with a bicycyle I can sit on my **** and still do exercise and get
around)

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[Peter Headland]

4, 1 + It's a great way to see the countryside.

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[Gawnsoft]

On 27 Sep 2004 16:36:02 GMT, Roos Eisma <[email protected]> wrote (more
or less):

>Gawnsoft <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>Plus fitness, environment-friendliness, economy.
>
>Plus fresh air and being outside.

For inner-city values of "fresh".


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[Jon Senior]

Wild Wind [email protected] opined the following...
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure most people on urc cycle for mostly
> the same reasons.
>
> However, I'm interested in what's more /important/
> to you in getting out there on your bikes, so
> please rate (in order of importance) the following
> reasons for cycling:
>
> 1. It's fun.
>
> 2. It's economical.
>
> 3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost
> constant time.
>
> 4. It keeps me fit.
>
> 5. It's environmentally friendly.
>
> 6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I
> pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
>
> 7. Other (please indicate)
>
> You can leave out reasons that don't apply.

1 - 4 - 6 - 6 - 6

WRT: Having finally reached a decent level of fitness, I've found that
it's transferable to a certain degree. So to maintain fitness I now run.

And nothing yet beats the satisfaction of racing cars into work. The
funniest moments being the futile revving of engines as you pass when
the instinct to overtake gets destroyed by the presence of a car in
front of them. ;-)

Jon

 

[AndyMorris]

1,3,4,5,6

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[Patrick Herring]

"Wild Wind" <[email protected]> wrote:
....
| 1. It's fun.
|
| 2. It's economical.
|
| 3. It gets me to where I'm going quickly in almost
| constant time.
|
| 4. It keeps me fit.

without boring me stupid.

| 5. It's environmentally friendly.
|
| 6. I get a wonderful feeling of schadenfreude as I
| pass by motorists stuck in traffic jams.
|
| 7. Other (please indicate)

It's aesthetically very satisfying.

8. Town journeys are almost always door-to-door, unlike any other way
except walking and that's too slow.

9. Tinkering can be done in the warm, even in front of the telly,
whereas taking the car engine out so you can change the oil filter on
the kitchen table is a bit backwards.

10. I can understand (almost) all of the engineering involved to a
level that makes me feel /I've/ mastered /it/ rather than its sitting
there smuggly waiting to cause me a repair bill that I don't know is
justified or not, guv. Those bits I don't fully understand are
pleasurably geeky to investigate e.g. reading Jobst's book.

11&12. No tax{e,i}s.

13. I can (sometimes) afford to buy stuff that's equivalent to buying
a Ferrari or a Porsche.

14. There's a very good atmosphere around cycling folks, unlike the
sneering one-up-man-ship down the Rep&WhiteVanMan.

I can't really come up with an ordering: all of the above. Perhaps I'd
put my #7 first, but only just.

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[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Patrick Herring
('[email protected]') wrote:

> 13. I can (sometimes) afford to buy stuff that's equivalent to buying
> a Ferrari or a Porsche.

When I first saw this poll I just thought 1-4-5 and didn't bother to
post. But there are other reasons. This is one of them. I can afford
'dream' bicycles. I even _have_ two of them. I really appreciate being
able to use engineering of this quality, even if I don't have the skill
or fitness to push it to its limits.

The other is being able to get into seriously wild country quickly and
quietly and without damaging the serenity I have gone to enjoy.

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[John Mallard]

1
3
7 I really hate the hassle of trying to find somewhere to put the car
several times a day.

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