Bicyclism

I am not just into cycling to reduce my personal carbon load.

It it just about fitness hard-earned and well-deserved? It is about that, but much more as well.

Is it also about the freedoms of escaping the lemming parade of motorised motorcar conformity that plagues and gasses all our roads? Do we dare to be different to achieve the same transportation ends while having fun, fitness and freedom as well? Yes, it is about that, but it's about more than that as well.

Is it about the elitism of sport without the slave caddy dependencies of those who are attached more to the rhetoric of physical achievement rather than to its reality? Yes, it's that too.

But what is it about cycling that keeps me addicted to the core? Read this latest post to Bicyclism Blog to discover the greater depths of at least my own attachment to this most astoundingly complete life-enhancing endeavour: What Is It About Cycling?



 

I've got an idea! Instead of all that greenhouse gassing, global SUV-sized ecological footprint stomping in Copenhagen, let's all go for a bicycle ride instead. This would achieve all the aims of the conference and then some as well. The problem, you see, is that we are all just like a herd of cattle balking at a bridge. Despite the snarls of big stick policy barking and the cattle prodding of our clueless politicians, we are loop locked like a mindless crowd despite the accumulating pile of poo from standing where we are. All it takes is for one or two leaders to emerge from the crowd and we will all cross to a better place. The task of leadership here is not to convene obscenely indulgent mega conferences and the like; it's to get out in the crowd and whisper the right words in some well chosen ears. There are some ever so simple things each of us can do to change the world to a degree beyond the wildest targets any machine manager might impose. And one of those is to ride our bikes; everywhere and all the time! All is revealed in this latest post to Bicyclism Blog: Just Like Cattle Crossing a Bridge