On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sad story, but an interesting life: > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4673693.ece > > Bob >
His early (for such a fit and vibrant man) demise is indeed sad, but it sounds like he had a rich and happy life, doing what he loved. How many of us can say that? I love that photo of him. The classic touring bike, all decked out in panniers and carrying-bags. I love the small life preservers attached to his fork - quite humourous given the desert locale! ;-) I like the list of advantages of cycling at the end of the story. A rough conversion to Imperial indicates that a bike gets the energy equivalent of 2,600 miles to the gallon. I'd read that the bicycle is the most energy-efficient form of transportation yet invented, and that statistic gives credence to that! — A cyclist can travel 1,037km (644 miles) on the energy equivalent of one litre of petrol — Regular cycling can make you as fit as someone who is ten years younger — A cyclist consumes 1/50th of the oxygen of a car making the same journey — A twice daily half-hour commute will, over a year, consume the energy equivalent of 24lb of fat — In 1949, 34 per cent of all mechanised journeys were made by bicycle. Fifty years later that figure had fallen to 2 per cent — The rate of serious heart disease for civil servants who cycle 20 miles or more a week is 50 per cent lower than for their sedentary colleagues Thanks, Bob, for an inspiring story! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
