[DVBC] Total ride miles in 2007

[Drew Knox]

Oh, so you're saying Doug is not obsessive -- you are. I'll have to find
something else to tease about. Hmm...

On 1/13/07, ambrosine at comcast.net <ambrosine at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Drew,
> As I was the only one with a computer for climbing stats, be sure that
> they were accurate.  Again, it was a little more than 30,000 feet!  Nancy
>
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Drew Knox" <agknox at gmail.com>
> 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:
> >
> >  Dom,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* dvbc-list-bounces at list.dvbc.org [mailto:
> > dvbc-list-bounces at list.dvbc.org] *On Behalf Of *domzdvbc at att.net
> > *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2007 8:15 AM
> > *To:* dvbc-list at dvbc.org
> > *Subject:* Re: [DVBC] Total ride miles in 2007
> >
> >
> >
> > I know.  I got a little lazy after the BW tour and didn't keep as close
> > a track of my miles as usual.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dom
> >
> > -------------- Original message from "Drew Knox" < agknox at gmail.com>:
> > --------------
> >
> > I'm with Len -- I have little interest in group-accumulated miles. Heck,
> > I don't even closely track my own mileage.
> >
> >
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/10/07, *Mr BONNIE WATKINS* < freewheelinguy at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Just my two cents.
> >
> >
> >
> > Happy cycling,
> >
> > Len
> >
> >
> >
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