oh yeah - "e-bikes" - I could not understand that. One of my favorite past-times of bicycling was to slow down in front of the paid health club big window where they are all on stationary bikes. You know the obvious presents itself - save yourself $30 a month or whatever and stop driving to work. haha. I used to ride an old 3 speed bicycle that was British - built like a tank - and I figured the heavy weight kept me well-trained. So then if I was ever put on one of those fancy $2K bikes I would fly like the wind to be sure!
In fact I used to have great fun accelerating past the buses that carried some of my coworkers. And for winter riding the best brakes are Barney Rubble style - as the ice and snow makes four legs good and two wheels bad. haha. I just go slow and steady - one time I got shot in the back of my head as I was singing reggae tunes. Luckily it was a pellet gun and I had two winter hats on!! So I yelled out but I didn't break my pedal gait at all!! haha.
Have you read "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien - that's the best bicycle Irish novel. I should reread it but I have some 100 books lined up to read for my book writing project. So then I built a generator stationary bicycle - it's the opposite of an E-bike! I can generator 3 amps at a slow casual pace to power a laptop if I want to power my own entertainment - only it's in the garage and it's not safe for a laptop to get down to freezing temp. haha. I use a DC motor taken out of one of those walking things - treadmill.
So now we got one of those exercise bikes that tells you how many calories your burning. So I can go into the big DIY store and pick up a box of candy and go - wow 2 hours on the bicycle - no thanks!! haha. But then we loaded up on xmas chocolates - most of it from child slave labor in Africa - and now I'm still in feast mode. Although I try to fast every morning for a few hours at least - burn off a pound or so. When I farm sit then I burn off a few pounds or I go fast in my hermit hut to meditate.
Yes I used to just read one book a day while dumpster diving food on my old 3 speed bicycle. It was a great life for ten years. The cops thought I was homeless but rather I rented a room in this house where this nasty old man lived.
It kept me out of the house for sure - every night at 1 a.m. like clockwork he did his nastiness in our shared bathroom and the wall was very thin to my room. A couple times when he opened his bed room door to go do his nastiness I met him with a glare that said - go back into your evil slime cave. He had this terrible reek from his magnesium depletion due to his evil nastiness. He used to then have to soak in the bathtub in some magnesium medicine to try to cover up his evil reek. The neighbors downstairs would catch him staring in to their private abode - what a creep.
The landlady was racist and would not rent to a young african-american male. He bragged that he had "supported" the old lady who was the landlady - after her husband died. She lived in a house a few blocks away. He grew up on a farm and he bragged to me how he busted a strike as a scab for his city career job in a wood factory downtown. The dude was evil. The place was cheap though - and I left the room trashed - I didn't try to destroy the wood floors. Civilization is sensitive and my buddy's career was wood floors. So maybe he got hired to replace the wood floors? Maybe they could be refinished or whatever. I didn't ask for the security deposit back - that's for sure.
I got a folding bicycle now so if I need to bike to the Bus station then I can catch a long distance bus to the cold part of the state to escape global warming. Because to own a car you need a street address but it's hard to hide from the evil of civilization with a street address. haha. Better to just use a bicycle to get around right? With a light weight tent and pack stove - that's my set up now in case I need to escape civilization.
Got an army duffle bag - and put the heavy arctic sleeping bag tied onto the bicycle rack. Tent and stove and clothes in the duffle bag - and some food for the road to power the bicycle. haha. A bicycle pump maybe - I need to get a light weight pump for travel. All they had was an expensive $40 pump where you use your feet to hold it in place. Works great but no good for travel. Some water - water is heavy.
good to know! I had no idea you were British - or English? When I made my rant bicycle comment about riding a British 3 speed. NOW I discover my home-town holds an "The All-British Cycling Event" - annually since 2000 - wow - that's about when I had started my daily commuting. Only these people are serious "hobbyists" doing antique restoration, etc. haha. Then another channel says the British 3-speed is the BEST commuting bicycle ever designed. Of couse! It is so comfortable and tough. I had no idea the secret was the "internal hub" for speed change instead of an external deraillur. I always wondered why that bicycle never needed maintenance and I ended my 10 year commuting stretch with an impromptu 250 mile "bike-about" along the Mississippi river - I dumpster dived food and slept outside except one night in a motel. haha. thanks for sharing your commuting experiences.
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