Re: Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear

On May 13, 12:01 am, "joseph.santanie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<joseph.santanie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 13, 1:02 am, Dane Buson <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In rec.bicycles.misc joseph.santanie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On May 12, 7:39 pm, Dane Buson <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> It does make me wonder, if a small bump in price to $4 is enough to
> > >> cause changes, how much would a real price spike change?  What
would
> > >> people do at $6?  At $8 a gallon?
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> > > Gas is over $10 per gallon here in Norway. I don't have the
reference
> > > handy, but recently I read that bikes account for less than 2% of
> > > commuters in Oslo, and the numbers were on the way down. If it is
only
> > > 2% in Oslo, I'm sure it's way less elsewhere here.
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> > > Gas prices alone are not that im****tant for bike adoption, IMO.
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> > But don't you have real public transit there?  Most of the US
> > is...challenged in terms of our public transit setup.  Do you know
what
> > the relative percentage is that take the train/bus/walk vs. driving?
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> I've only used public trans****t in a handful of US cities, all of
> which were much larger than Oslo (New York, Boston, Chicago, LA, SF, a
> few others) and light-years better. Since Oslo has only 500,000 people
> or so, it's not really a good comparison. Compared to a city of
> 500,000 in the US it might be pretty good. I don't recall the commuter
> break-down. I'll tyr to find it. The im****tant thing for bike usage is
> distances needed to be travelled and what sort of destinations. If a
> super-market is a long haul, only hard-core types will ride bikes
> there. If it is to pop down to a baker for some fresh bread 3 blocks
> away, you'll get more takers.
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> Joseph


Norway is a big open country. It is not like little flat country like
Dutch. Not only that Norway is too mountainous  not good for bike
ride.