On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > So how come he's riding the subway? > > Over here you're not allowed to take an unfolded bike on the tube. Can't > imagine why anybody would want to, though - bikes are quicker. > > On the other hand, it hasn't snowed within the limits of Zone 6 since 1327.
We're allowed bikes on the subways and buses outside of rush hour and all weekend (when this was taken). Many buses (like all of them on the route out toward my office) have fold-down bike racks on the front that can be used any time. Now that snow's here - and more particularly, very icy shoulders - along much of my route, I have been throwing my bike on those racks and busing to within about 5 kilometers of work. From the last bus stop the roads are wide, flat and not heavily travellled, so I can do snow and cold for ten or fifteen minutes. It keeps me from completely going flabby over the winter, so I should be in better shape than usual by the time spring comes. Gotta get a photo of my bike on one of those racks... As for this fellow, I don't know where he was going, but I can tell you that there are many days in the winter where side streets or streets on the outskirts of town are impassible for bikes (with skinny tires, like this fellow and like mine) while main thoroughfares downtown are clear and passable. Taking a bike by transit downtown then using that bike to do numerous errands on clear roads makes perfect sense during this season. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
