"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.
--
Patrick Herring, Sheffield, UK
http://www.anweald.co.uk