Comments on: Rock Hard, Ride Free

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:36:04 +0000

I’m afraid I need to stick with public transportation and walking… as sad as this is to admit I never learned how to ride a bike when I was a kid and I’m too embarassed to try now.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:14:17 +0000

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new canadian based website fighting the new world order and the globalist agenda…… support is needed …

By: tom

tom — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:16:55 +0000

yeah i agree with you, 4130punk. but didn’t you just illustrate a global solution: governments actually implementing cycling infrastructure? buisnesses following suit. you see, it sounds like much less of a problem the more we talk about people and institutions actually working for change. you’ve proved my point.

By: Pidgey

Pidgey — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:36:56 +0000

I cycle through London every day, and in the past six months I have been knocked off my bike three fucking times.

The last time was quite bad, but luckily (?!) the car behind me was actually an ambulance. Man, there was a blood dripping everywhere. For the third time it was a dick head driver driving like a fucking dick head (with his fucking iPod in his ears).

After that I got The Fear and had to walk/tube /bus it. Anyway, I’m together now, and this crazy old man at work fixed my bike for me.

Cycle the fuck out of everything. Spread the word and keep clear of dickheads in cars/vans/bendy-busses and motorbikes. I love my bike.

By: 4130Punk

4130Punk — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:44:05 +0000

I live in Toronto and everyone should blow up their cars and ride their bikes. I bike to work (almost) daily (when it’s raining I’ll take the subway) and it’s a 20km round trip. A co-worker of mine lives in Mississauga and it’s a 120km round trip and he does it everyday (it takes him about 3 hrs). I get e-mails from people asking about safe routes to get from Ajax to downtown and that’s atleast 50km, one way. Cycling is a viable, healthy, and environmental alternative no matter how far you live from your workplace.

As for “if an individual does all possible to reduce emmissions, yet governments and buisness owners do nothing at all, how can we expect change? it’s a global problem and it requires a global solution, no?” that Tom brought up; NO, it does not require a global solution. Governments get elected because they are popular (just like Canadian Idols) and if cycling becomes a major issue, they will implement cycling policy or else they’ll lose their plush jobs in the seats of power. And businesses will also follow suit or else they will have either no workforce, no consumers, or both. I know of many businesses that have install safe, indoor bicycle parking as well as shower facilities for cyclists.

As for the Critical Mass, I have yet to attend one of these events (mostly due to ignorance) but they happen on the last Friday of every month at 6:00pm and they start at Bloor and Spadina. I do not believe there has been in police repression at these events in almost 10 years but I do know that SUV drivers get very upset!!!

As drew said “sustain the fuck out of critical mass”

By: drew

drew — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:55:35 +0000

suburban (urban? both!) sprawl makes it so some people are left with little choice other than to use a car. its definitely a predicament . i like to try and make sure my life is arranged so i can walk/bike/mass transit as much as possible. there are a lot of people where there’s no excuse for using a car but we’ve just come to rely on them so much since we were born, its like we forgot we can ride bikes and walk and stuff to get places. plus! riding a bike is so much more fun. that coupled with our busy as fuck rat race culture etc, etc makes for having little time to spend using other modes of transportation that may take more time. however, if people did walk and bike more, they could cancel the montly membership at the gym and kill two birds with one stone and wouldnt have to make time for exercise since it would be incorporated into your daily life. ok enough ranting. sorry for so long.

sustain the fuck out of critical mass, all the world over!

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:03:43 +0000

Vicariously, I understand what you mean, Tim -I live in South Florida. Living in a suburbian wasteland, isolated from the city’s downtown area - where I work - I’m left with no options but resorting to burning more carbon monoxide and depending on refined petroleum for transportation. Thus, whenever I can, I use my local public transportation system, despite its inefficiency and unreliability.

Yearly, following the devastation wrought by hurricanes, I witness the entire city of Miami being driven to wait impatiently for long hours for gas replenishmnets; people viciously attack each other as they wait in lines. Ominously, if affluent westeners do not change their over-consumptive, materialized lifestyles, I can’t help but conceptuatlize a bleak future of scarcity and endless fucking chaos.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:51:37 +0000

doesnt florida look like a giant wiener.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:49:24 +0000

I live in florida and i ride my bike to my first job(1 mile their and back…so it only makes sense)probably could walk but riding is fun.Then to second job later in the day(5 miles round trip).But here it rains and hurricanes…00000000 about 5 months a year so sometimes it takes a little extra ummpph

By: tom

tom — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:48:38 +0000

haha ok fine, context:

i drive a car to get to work, in fact to get anywhere. i live on the border between rural and sub-urban quebec. montreal, the city which i live close too, has probably one of the worst public transit systems in the world. also famous for insane drivers who have no respect for non-drivers, this city is not safe for cyclists.

i also drive a cube van for a job, spending over 200$ on gas per week. thats like 200 litres. my boss has no intention of converting to bio-diesel. and here’s where my point comes in.

if an individual does all possible to reduce emmissions, yet governments and buisness owners do nothing at all, how can we expect change? it’s a global problem and it requires a global solution, no?

i find that buisnesses and politicians seem to go green as soon as they realize lucrative advertising or revenue potential. green is a better color to paint your corporation with. do you get what i mean? the powerful will only become enviromental if it serves their interests, with a few rare exceptions.

thats why i think critical mass is so important, and violence against hummers is called for.

thats hummers, not humans.