The lure of a sunny day

[copracat]

One of the cycling blogs I read linked to this great article in the Times Online:

Cycling should be dull, not an extreme sport

It was a marvellous day here today, sunny and warm and breezy. I cycled to my lunch date and when the time came, didn't want to go home so I set off around the bike paths. Eventually knees and bladder outvoted me! At a cycle crossing, a lycra lad smiled at me and said, 'Isn't it a brilliant day?' We were waiting for our crossing lights, watching a near jam of cars crawling past us and I have to say, I felt extremely superior in my mode of transport. Likely I will feel less so in a couple of months when the drivers are in their snug dry capsules and I am flexing my fingers to warm them up and wishing the lights would change so I could get back into the lee of buildings and out of the wind again!

Comments

[sara]

Oh, I was raised by people who were very much conservation-minded conservatives...they did exist, once upon a time, before things got as weird as they are now (where have all the technocrats gone, long time a-going, where have all the technocrats gone, gone, gone away....)

I was out doing yardwork this afternoon -- we're refiing the mortgage, which means we've been trying to get the place tidied up for the inspection next week -- and the garden helpers I'd hired, who work for a friend of mine? Pulled up on their bikes! With a trailer full of gardening tools! It was great. Between them and us and the kids across the street, we had a half-dozen bikes in the driveway and garage at one point today....

[darkemeralds]

Oh, that's excellent! Gardening seems like such an obvious and natural business for a bike. There are some really lightweight trailers out there.

I'd love to see garden and grounds maintenance become more quiet and less motor-intensive generally.

Good luck on your re-fi!

[sara]

We did have one truckload of debris go off in the morning, and there's at least one more truckload waiting for a truck pickup sometime when my friend the head landscaper is on this side of town, but yeah, we can certainly get a lot done with no internal combustion whatsoever....

Thanks, I think it'll go well if we can get a handle on all the clutter around here....