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gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear


Published May. 11, 2008

Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business - if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers - or buying new ones - to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say.

 

WE SHOULD HAVE "RIDE TO WORK MONTH OR EVEN YEAR"!!!! Get out of your car coffin and ride your bike folks, it is good for you! You won't BELIEVE how much better you will feel!! 



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I used to have a great bikeable commute: 6 miles each way, 4.5 miles on shaded trails, 1 mile on sidewalks, .5 miles on barely-traveled subdivision roads. Bad part: the office had an idiotic dress code (I didn't have customer contact). Net result, I did it maybe 5 times because of all I had to carry with me and/or having to plan 24hr in advance.

Now I've got a great job at a new place, no dress code. But I'd have to ride just as far on roads with speed limits of 45-55mph and no sidewalks.

$4/gal for a year is cheaper than 1 hospital visit from an inevitable bump. Give me bike/foot lanes segregated from motor traffic (Europe figured this out years ago), or give me my pseudo-armor on 4 wheels.

My work commute is too far and the roads are too dangerous.

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