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Countdown to 100$ oil (7) - a smart solution: the bike | 41 comments (41 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

it's better than nothing, but I am amazed why you have to set up such high tech program to convince people to abandon their damned cars.
Ok, my opinion is biased, I don't have a car and I don't need one either! I cycle about 1000 km each month to go to work and back and a few hundred kilometers more for fun. A bike costs next to nothing, and if you want you can have the same high tech carbon machine Lance Armstrong is riding.

by Hansvon on Fri Jul 8th, 2005 at 06:39:09 PM EST

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and if you want you can have the same high tech carbon machine Lance Armstrong is riding

for quite a bit less than a Prius, I should think...? haven't checked the price tag on Lance's bike though, I could be wrong.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Fri Jul 8th, 2005 at 06:46:31 PM EST
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Thinking of it, I also use my own bike where I can (for example going to school every day when I was in Frankfurt), so I can't place myself into the mind of a likely user of such a system either.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Jul 9th, 2005 at 11:54:37 AM EST
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