[DVBC] Total ride miles in 2007

[Drew Knox]

No one is going to validate or argue our mileage "facts." Just multiply the
number of members times some mileage, like Len's suggestion of 3000.
Otherwise, you could be going down a rabbit hole: on which roads?, at what
times?, etc. etc. Not to mention the added overhead of this project.

To Doug's point, it's hard to believe that it would make any difference in
terms of advocacy or legislation if we submitted a number of 450,000 miles
from a 30-second calculation or twice that number from dozens of hours of
scrupulously maintaining mileage logs.

Personally, even though I plan to continue teasing Doug as much as possible,
he's on the right track spending off-bike time planning new rides rather
than tracking old ones, although I did hear some obsessive numbers on
elevation gain on ToPA.

My other .02
Drew


On 1/12/07, Doug Bower <Bowerdou at verizon.net> wrote:
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>  Dom,
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> Need I remind you our elected officials are completely inept and they
> don't give a d*m about helping their constituents!!!  They certainly don't
> rely upon facts when they make decisions about how to squander our tax
> dollars!!!  All decisions are based upon emotions and never involve facts.
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> I know.  I got a little lazy after the BW tour and didn't keep as close a
> track of my miles as usual.
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> But it may be useful for advocacy use.  The Bike Coalition has been
> helping us with the Bicyclists' Baltimore Pike and other bike/ped projects,
> so the info might help convince our policitos that X amount of people rode X
> amount of miles in Delco and so these projects are useful and needed.
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> Dom
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> -------------- Original message from "Drew Knox" <agknox at gmail.com>:
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> I'm with Len -- I have little interest in group-accumulated miles. Heck, I
> don't even closely track my own mileage.
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> Drew
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> On 1/10/07, *Mr BONNIE WATKINS* <freewheelinguy at verizon.net> wrote:
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> I personally don't need to know this information.  What does it really
> matter?  Say our club has 100 active cycling members and the average mileage
> is 3k that would equal 30k miles. What does that information give us?   If
> the majority like the idea, I will try to comply.
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> Just my two cents.
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> Happy cycling,
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> Len
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