They don't get it

[Geonz]

How much website space and publicity is spent on bicycling... andwhat percentage of that is spent on "bicycling safety?" I remember reading (in another forum, maybe?) that somebody mused that when people talk about skiing with non-skiiers, they still talk about how much fun it is, not so much about how hazardous it is.
I would really like to change the sad reality that my gradual shift from being a car person to using the bike for almost all transportation has been a gradual shift into being someone "on the fringe" and a minor celebrity. I wish people could realize that while I've never been confused for normal, I honestly was your average couch potato for most of the years of my adult life before I decided that I'd rather be different and healthy. Healthy shouldn't be weird!
Ready to do some serious culture jamming here

[lph]

Re: family that "don't get it": my mother and I have always been the active ones in the family. She used to go hiking in the mountains for many years until now she has a really bad hip that needs replacing. I'm the one "bouncing around like a demented frisbee"...

My father is kind of a distracted genius, and has never put any store in taking care of his body, that annoying appendage to his mind. He started having mild heart trouble five years ago, and in the course of a few months had a bypass operation replacing FIVE arteries.

My brother was the same. He never exercised, sedentary lifestyle, ate anything put in front of him, smoked a few cigarettes a day. He died 3 months ago, 41 years old, of a massive heart attack.

Take care of yourselves! It DOES make a difference.