[DVBC] Cycling for transportation

[A Michael Broennle MD]

LEAVING THE CAR AT HOME, AND HAVING A GAS
Bike Bits recently received the following correspondence from Ms.
Lauren Cooper and Dr. Nee Howard: "We are an elderly mother (86) and
daughter (55) who in recent years have mostly quit driving. Instead,
we bicycle up to twenty-five miles a day around Carlsbad, California,
on hi-tech recumbent trikes, and a very unusual tandem recumbent
trike. Yet we are two of the least athletic people you will ever
meet. We maintain a normal suburban lifestyle, bicycling daily for
shopping, errands, yard sales, etc., and drive our twenty-year-old
car just four or five times a month. Home range is a twelve-mile
radius (we're quite famous in this area!), and we take the trike on
local trains for longer travel. We handle oversize loads like
mattresses and file cabinets with a homemade bike trailer. We're
saving about $3,000 year--just by doing something as simple and
fun as riding a bike every day." Watch the dynamic duo in action
here:

LEAVING THE CAR AT HOME, AND HAVING A GAS
Bike Bits recently received the following correspondence from Ms.
Lauren Cooper and Dr. Nee Howard: "We are an elderly mother (86) and
daughter (55) who in recent years have mostly quit driving. Instead,
we bicycle up to twenty-five miles a day around Carlsbad, California,
on hi-tech recumbent trikes, and a very unusual tandem recumbent
trike. Yet we are two of the least athletic people you will ever
meet. We maintain a normal suburban lifestyle, bicycling daily for
shopping, errands, yard sales, etc., and drive our twenty-year-old
car just four or five times a month. Home range is a twelve-mile
radius (we're quite famous in this area!), and we take the trike on
local trains for longer travel. We handle oversize loads like
mattresses and file cabinets with a homemade bike trailer. We're
saving about $3,000 year--just by doing something as simple and
fun as riding a bike every day." Watch the dynamic duo in action
here:
http://10news.com/video/16220875/index.html