The Penguin and Clutches...VISA

[Kurt Kessler]

Bike: 40lbs
Trailer: 50lbs
Kid # 1: 38lbs
Kid # 2: 35lbs
Must have toys: 5lbs
Getting lost and having to pedal up a hill:
Breathless...

--- zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Mine is pretty close to that!  The bike itself is 20
> years old bought 
> second hand from a friend.  I use it as the tractor
> to pull the trailer 
> for my kids to ride in when we go riding.  Toss in
> another twenty pounds 
> for water, the emergency tool set and those
> ever-present favorite toys 
> that must go absolutely everywhere that the kids go.
> . .
> 
> Bike 
> 	 40
> trailer 
> 	 50
> Kid #1		 38
> Kid #2		 35
> Me 
> 	175 (the bike riding IS starting to pay off!!!)
> ---------------------
> Total 
> 	338
> 
> 
> I figure the 5 mile round trip to daycare burns as
> many calories as 
> backing up that 200 gig hard drive to 3.5 inch
> floppies!  (That includes 
> carrying them into the house from the car!)
> 
> 
> 
> Now the bike I ride when the kids are at school
> weighs 22 pounds, so it 
> is less than 200 pounds with me on it!
> 
> 
> Seth Dimbert wrote:
> 
> > Your bicycle weighs 400 pounds?!? What's it made
> out of? Cement?
> > 
> > On 8/5/02 8:58 PM, "Duane Attaway"
> <dattaway at attaway.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, zscoundrel wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Personally, I recommend automatic transmissions
> to most people, because
> >>>80% of the drivers out there can't coordinate
> both feet and still steer
> >>>the car.  (But that doesn't stop them from trying
> to use the cell phone
> >>>at the same time!)
> >>>
> >>Silly people with their cars and Windows.  I
> prefer bikes and Linux.  Why
> >>drive a 4000lb car when you can ride a 400lb bike?
>  Sometimes a
> >>minimalistic approach is more enjoyable when it
> comes to operating systems
> >>too.  Most people just don't know what they are
> missing.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > 
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