So cycling is political act??

[shootingstar]

Shootingstar, did you respond to the person on the other forum with what you said here? If so, what did they say?

I suspect the person calling you a commie is not someone who would listen to reason, as leaping to that conclusion from your blog post in the first place seems unreasonable. I'm curious though.

Of course, you could always accuse them of being an imperialist capitalist pig who is trying to limit your right to ride a bike and wants to force everyone to drive 1989 Chevy Suburbans at 8 mpg. How dare they step on your political rights?!?

I gave same reason that I gave here, to him yesterday: I was never comfortable driving, so gave up my license a long time ago.

He graciously said I had a good (true) story.


Really, my car-free lifestyle is a LOOOOOG history of living a life, ignorant of the full convenience of a car. So ignorance =lack of temptation???

I'm sure most TEwomen here since we cycle often, will bike 2-5 kms. to the grocery store if their neighbourhood streets allow safe cycling in snow-free seasons. Instead of jumping into the car.
A personal financial story on saving money...ironic. It is...quite capitalistic. Selfish.

As for being/perceived as environmentalist: Am I consciously green? I'm pretty lazy, honest. I don't use my sink garburator for veggie scraps.....I just know it's going to get clogged like the garburator in Vancouver. Which is going to cost money to bring someone in to fix it, replace blades.

And we don't have composter in our building. Will I be lobbying for one? I doubt it. I'm not going to even talk about our new condo board who have to deal with bigger issues related to reserve fund...

I do alot of personal stuff more for both saving money and personal convenience.
So biking actually provides me extra personal convenience 'cause before I only walked or took transit. Now I have a 3rd viable option.