Following up on Al's point...perhaps we can have a downhill sprint race series where we Clydesdale's race skinny folk with Gravity on our side....the skinny types get some time credits depending upon weight?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Bikies mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bikies digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Re:The Council Adopted the Platinum Biking Committee Report! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2. New BIY and HPV (Dar Ward) 3. RE: New BIY and HPV (Della Haugen) 4. fat bicyclists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 5. RE: Ciclov?a (Schimpff, Jeff A - DNR) 6. to snowy tire 27x1,3/8 tire (john earp) 7. Thuy's Comments Immortalized on YouTube (Matt Logan) 8. Re: Thuy's Comments Immortalized on YouTube (Michael Lemberger) From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] Re:The Council Adopted the Platinum Biking Committee Report! Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:21:23 -0500 To: [email protected] Alder Pham-Remmele makes it sound as if the goal is to force everyone to ride a bike. How did she find out about our top-secret plans? ===== darin ---- Michael Rewey wrote: > Unbelievable. I hope they put that in the minutes! That could make national > press. > > Mike > > ******************************* > > On 9 Apr 2008 at 11:04, David Vogt wrote: > > Matt, you're forgetting Alder Thuy's most memorable reason for voting against > adoption: > We're too fat to bike. > > Her actual quote (I'm NOT making this up): "How is a 300-pound person going > to ride a > bike?" > > Truth is indeedstranger than fiction... > -- > David L. Vogt > Deputy Executive Director > Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin > 106 E Doty St, Suite 400 > Madison, WI 53703 > 608.251.4456 (Office) > 414.426.0424 (Mobile) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BIKUS NON-LUBRIUM BUSTICUS > > Original Message: > > By a 19-1 vote, the Council adopted the Mayor's Platinum Biking > Committee report tonight. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed the council > (they received a respectable number of e-mails) and/or spoke at the > meeting. > > The one holdout was Thuy Pham-Remmele (District 20), who cited the > recent flat-tire prank as her reason for shifting her vote from the > "yes" to the "no" column. > > Oddly enough, I am not sure it has been proven that the people > responsible (if any were caught) were bicyclists.Interestingly, many > of the victims of the prank were bicyclists. > > http://www.channel3000.com/news/15763095/detail.html > > [Oh, and by the way, our own Ann Freiwald is featured in the article > above. Way to go Ann!] > > In addition to the citing flat-tire prank, Thuy also shared her wisdom > on the impracticality of using a bicycle to drop kids off at school, run > errands, or be of any use to older people. Elections for Common Council > occur in one year. > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies From: Dar Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Bikies] New BIY and HPV Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:57:05 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected] What a shock! I've written a BIY about fat cyclists! http://www.dane101.com/regular_feature/2008/04/10/biy_bike_it_yourself_fat_cyclist Re: Robbie's post on HPV...I was thinking of an entirely different HPV at first. I was worried that there had been a bicycle seat outbreak for a minute until I read your post. -Dar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From: Della Haugen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Bikies] New BIY and HPV CC: Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:10:18 -0400 To: Dar Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } LOL! Dar you always make me chuckle. :) I just sent this information about HPV coming to Madison to my assignment manager at channel 3. Expect some kind of coverage. Thanks Robbie! By the way... This is Della Haugen. I use to work at the Bike Fed but now I'm at channel 3 as a photojournalist. I love getting story ideas from this list. I hope you liked the hummer vs tire air story. I'm personally divorced from my toyota pick-up truck as of last summer. I love the bus, my bike, community car and yes even my Honda scooter. It's a four stroke so don't hate me too much. Be the Change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi www.hivictorious.org --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:57:05 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: [Bikies] New BIY and HPV What a shock! I've written a BIY about fat cyclists! http://www.dane101.com/regular_feature/2008/04/10/biy_bike_it_yourself_fat_cyclist Re: Robbie's post on HPV...I was thinking of an entirely different HPV at first. I was worried that there had been a bicycle seat outbreak for a minute until I read your post. -Dar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------- Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bikies] fat bicyclists Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:38:38 GMT To: [email protected] Hello all: Normally I do my darnedest to "lurk." Dar's thread kinda caught my fancy - notwithstanding the fact that I'm even skinnier than usual after getting that godawful virus a few weeks ago. Anyway, here's my marketing scheme: "Fat Folks on Fat Tires" It could be a ride held during bike to work week highlighting the fact that people of slightly less anorexic girth can and manytimes enjoy the bicycle as a mode of transportation. It's kind of late to glom onto bike to work week (apologies to the organizers for dumping a new idea late in the process) but if it's on people's minds, maybe now is the time to address it head on. It's always better, in my opinion, to hash things out in the open rather than have issues fester behind the scenes. I like the whole notion Dar advances because it's one of those unspoken things about bicycling and to the extent that it's gone from a source of frustration to a big stupid remark by Thuy, maybe we could tap this as a "teachable moment." Just a thought. Al Matano From: "Schimpff, Jeff A - DNR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Bikies] Ciclovía Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:25:23 -0500 To: "bikies" <[email protected]> West Dayton from Randall to the Square would be a logical candidate for closure. It is parallel to Johnson, has relatively light traffic most of the time, and people can get to destinations such as the Kohl Center via cross streets. (It's also parallel to the Greenbush connector, so the benefits of closure are now much less than would have been up until a couple years ago... Jeff Schimpff "Bus, Bike, Walk or Carpool to Work for Clean Air for Kids" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:06 PM To: bikies Subject: Re: [Bikies] Ciclovía If Madison were to do something like this (and I've heard that it has been discussed by the Platinum committee), which street(s) would we like to see closed to cars? Discuss... On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:46 AM, john wagnitz wrote: > My apologies if this has been sent out before but I find this video so > inspriring...what a cheap way to open your city up to cycling and > other family activities. > > http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/03/ciclovia-a-moving-experience- > in-bogota/ > > > Looks like Portland is planning to try this in June. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of > Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies From: john earp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Bikies] to snowy tire 27x1,3/8 tire Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:21:33 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected] Hello; Possibly you could seek help from some tire company from out side the continental U.S.A , ie Europe, check the internet Pedibike brickshaw bike taxi London England and other companies from abroad, I found snow chains for a 26" x 2,25" tire last winter, about $40.00 a set, preformed very, very well on the snow and icy pavements, adding much needed traction and limited side to side skidding, an real improvement over bare tires. Good luck; jhn_ cougar lover crow-messenger __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From: "Matt Logan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Bikies] Thuy's Comments Immortalized on YouTube Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:37:58 -0500 To: <[email protected]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-k7fAHiZy8 It is amazing that someone who knows so little about bicycling could actually talk about it for 3 minutes and 14 seconds. From: Michael Lemberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] Thuy's Comments Immortalized on YouTube Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:23:07 -0500 To: [email protected] Wait now, did she say that she hadn't ridden her bike since 1973, and then go on to say that she loves biking? Priceless. On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Matt Logan wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-k7fAHiZy8 > > > > It is amazing that someone who knows so little about bicycling > could actually talk about it for 3 minutes and 14 seconds. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
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