Comments on: Speedlinking 16 August 2008 http://treadly.net/2008/08/16/speedlinking-16-august-2008/ Work is just something I do between bike rides Fri, 04 May 2012 07:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: hielke http://treadly.net/2008/08/16/speedlinking-16-august-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 hielke Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:47:08 +0000 http://treadly.net/2008/08/16/speedlinking-16-august-2008/#comment-1360 <p>Doesn't the helmet hat make your head look big? I know it is not PC but we just threaten our kids that if they don't wear their helmet we will call the police and they will take them. I know, I know. This will make them fear the police. But after seeing that YouTube from yesterday about the cop body checking a rider that may actually not even be all that silly.</p> <p>On the tandem, my grandparents had one. It remained unused for 5 years hidden in the attic because of the war (this was Holland in the 40s). After the war my grandpa dusted it off, greased it and put it back together. He sold it 2 weeks later, but my grandparents avoided divorce and remained married their whole life. I have been passed on a tandem mountainbike on a downhill. Man, these things fly!</p> <p>What was weird about The Economists' article is that the reactions mostly had nothing to do with the article itself. It's just the usual sh.. uhm, stuff.</p> <p>The bikes for college students promising not to drive a car to campus made me laugh. When I went to school in the US I was on some student council body. We had a trip to Santa Monica for a national meeting. The number 1 issue facing graduate students in the US in the mid 90s? That's right, parking spaces that made you have to walk "far" and not being allowed to park on staff carparks on campus even though they were teaching tutorials. Since we went to school in New York we went, WTF?!? You guys own CARS?????</p> Doesn’t the helmet hat make your head look big? I know it is not PC but we just threaten our kids that if they don’t wear their helmet we will call the police and they will take them. I know, I know. This will make them fear the police. But after seeing that YouTube from yesterday about the cop body checking a rider that may actually not even be all that silly.

On the tandem, my grandparents had one. It remained unused for 5 years hidden in the attic because of the war (this was Holland in the 40s). After the war my grandpa dusted it off, greased it and put it back together. He sold it 2 weeks later, but my grandparents avoided divorce and remained married their whole life. I have been passed on a tandem mountainbike on a downhill. Man, these things fly!

What was weird about The Economists’ article is that the reactions mostly had nothing to do with the article itself. It’s just the usual sh.. uhm, stuff.

The bikes for college students promising not to drive a car to campus made me laugh. When I went to school in the US I was on some student council body. We had a trip to Santa Monica for a national meeting. The number 1 issue facing graduate students in the US in the mid 90s? That’s right, parking spaces that made you have to walk “far” and not being allowed to park on staff carparks on campus even though they were teaching tutorials. Since we went to school in New York we went, WTF?!? You guys own CARS?????

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