At 05:54 PM 08/27/2003 -0500, Schimpff, Jeff A wrote: [snip] >Only one weird thing. While Europe is decades ahead (a century, perhaps?) >of Dane County and the rest of the U.S. in providing (or restoring) clean, >efficient transportation, we are decades ahead in personal protection. Very >few people wear helmets or bike gloves outside of Norway. [snip]
perhaps that's because the majority of motorists in Europe don't fantasize about running down bicyclists with their obscenely large SUVs (oh wait, most of them don't have obscenely large SUVs, either). Chuck Strawser Project Coordinator Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin 106 E. Doty Street, Suite 400 P.O. Box 1224 Madison, WI 53701-1224 608-251-4456 tel 608-251-4594 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bfw.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
