On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:46:56 -0400, Bob <rgs...@notme.invalid> wrote:
> **Or, do most of you folks just leave it on all of the time ?
I put my bike in the trunk.
I'm not sure it will go into the trunk of my current car -- when I
yell for help, DH drives the pickup truck.
(I yell for help more often than I used to. At seventy-four, I figure
it's a lot cheaper to pay the boy at the Trailhouse to fix my flats
than to change a tube while sitting in the hot sun on gravel while
convoys of semis roar past.)
Disclaimer: I live within walking distance of the only bike shop in
town, and I have to finagle to make a ride to the farthest local box
store into exercise, so I put the bike into a motor vehicle only after
yelling for help.
But I've been thinking of driving to a parking lot in another town, as
I used to do when we lived in upstate New York. (Drive to
supermarket, ride to shopping malls, buy perishables at the
supermarket, drive home.)
So I ran out and measured: The trunk is sixty inches, the bike is
sixty-six. But it should go if I put it in diagonally and turn the
front wheel. Luckily, the Versa is a four-door, so I can pull as well
as push.
And I drove to Fort Wayne all my myself last Thursday and, in
fulfillment of my New Year resolution, stopped at Gordon Food Service
on the way back. So driving to a mall should be no problem, except
for the part about having nowhere to take my afternoon nap.
But I didn't see a lot of bikable streets, and the "bike" (i.e.
pedestrian-and-skateboard) facilities give no thought at all to
getting to the other side of barriers. It doesn't matter *where* you
pointlessly ride around in circles, after all, and *nobody* would
*ever* ride a bike to go anywhere.
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