Tom Keats wrote:
> In article <g05i8j$k61$3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> Dane Buson wrote:
>>> Mike A Schwab <mike.a.schwab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Do you want a larger rebate because you own a bike instead of a car?
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.vw.com/vwhype/whatthepeoplewant/en/us/?pageID=25848664&adID=197401751&pollid=3142
>>> Well yeah, and while we're at it, I'd like a pony too.
>>>
>>> Personally, I'd rather they just removed the tax break for businesses
>>> for employee parking spaces. Businesses would be a lot more
>>> accomodating to alternative trans****tation if they weren't being
>>> subsidized to the tune of $2000 an employee for car parking spaces.
>>>
>> Can the tax break for cager parking be replaced by one for showers and
>> secure bicycle parking?
>
> I'd rather it go toward greenspace, picnic tables and
> built-in BBQs.
>
> What's with all this razmatazz about showers?
> In the PNW we frequently have to ride /in/
> showers ;-)
>
> But all this talk about showers makes riding
> sound like a dirty, grimy endeavour, which
> it isn't. The whole notion of cycling being
> dirty is a canard that deserves to be quashed,
> squashed, stepped-upon, and vehemently refuted.
>
> I mean, it's not at all like those WWI aeroplanes
> spattering engine oil into your begoggled face.
>
> And yet that's the excuse so many people make to
> bail out of the idea of cycling. So they'll instead
> foul the troposphere with their auto emissions,
> in order to stay clean & fresh. TYVM.
>
> And if you so fear stinking, don't be
> a junk food fatso in the first place.
>
Just walking outside can make one sweaty and stinky when the temperature
exceeds 80°F and the relative humidity 90%, which is not uncommon in
much of the US. Even here in the Upper Midwest, I would be sweaty and
stinky if I rode to work at 8 mph on a summer morning.
> Anyways, I'd rather have a larger bike than a
> larger rebate. Although all donations are
> greatly accepted.
>
If you really want a larger bicycle, you will have to make a deal with
the devil:
<http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/didi_senft_11sfw.jpg>.
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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
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