"Wheels to Reels"

=v= Interesting program in Santa Rosa, California. As an incentive to bike (or skate) to work,
commuters get free movies. There's an article in the _San_Francisco_Chronicle_:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/19/BA219398.DTL&type=printable

If that wraps, here's a shorter URL (with ads):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/19/BA219398.DTL

=v= I'm not nuts about the "die-hard" and "environmental martyr" characterizations (10 miles in
lovely Marin is hardly martyrdom) and I'd contest the "free ride" headline with the inevitable
reminder about us subsidizing motorists, but otherwise it's a good article for the _Chron_.

=v= I haven't seen this item in any of the "Oddly Enough" newswire sections, but the folks at the
notoriously anti-bike KGO has put it in their "News of the Bizarre" section:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/features/bizarre_news.html

(URL will expire by tomorrow, no doubt.) <_Jym_

 

Jym Dyer wrote:

> =v= I'm not nuts about the "die-hard" and "environmental martyr" characterizations (10 miles in
> lovely Marin is hardly martyrdom) and I'd contest the "free ride" headline with the inevitable
> reminder about us subsidizing motorists, but otherwise it's a good article for the _Chron_.
>

He sure does save alot of money, 2 to 3 million a year! He must have VERY expensive taste in cars.
Or maybe that's just the cost of living in California.

 

Jym Dyer at [email protected] wrote on 2/21/03 9:47 AM:
> =v= I'm not nuts about the "die-hard" and "environmental martyr" characterizations (10 miles in
> lovely Marin is hardly martyrdom) and I'd contest the "free ride" headline with the inevitable
> reminder about us subsidizing motorists, but otherwise it's a good article for the _Chron_.

Santa Rosa is in Sonoma County, and can be a tad urban in places.

 

> Santa Rosa is in Sonoma County, and can be a tad urban in places.

=v= Whoops, my bad, I was thinking of San Rafael.

=v= Santa Rosa still isn't "die-hard" "martyr" territory, though. The main danger I encountered
there was boredom. <_Jym_>

(Oh, and the one-foot-wide bike lanes at the fairgrounds.)

 

> =v= Santa Rosa still isn't "die-hard" "martyr" territory, though. The main danger I encountered
> there was boredom.

=v= I found out about this site in alt.comics.peanuts; it's a Japanese site that publishes old
_Peanuts_ strips:

http://www.snoopy.co.jp/strip_lib/200303/

This month there are a bunch of strips featuring Rerun on the back of his mother's bike. Dig the
1980's-style helmet! :^) <_Jym_