Which businesses must stay open during the coronavirus shutdown? How about bicycle shops?
With gyms closing due to COVID-19, and a milder spring than years past, Spoke-N-Sport Owner Chad Pickard says they’ve seen an increase in bike servicing.
“People are digging their bike out after it’s been in the garage for maybe two or three years, or even longer,” Spoke-N-Sport Owner Chad Pickard said [Sean Bower, “Bike Trail Serves as an Active Social Distancing Site,” KELO-TV, 2020.04.01].
Exercise keeps the immune system strong. Exercising on a bicycle gives people healthy outdoor time to break cabin fever and, since we can cover longer distances by pedal, allows us to spread out from each other. Plus if we all ride bikes, we can keep those gasoline prices down that Donald Trump is trying to increase! So I’d say bicycles are necessary for public, economic, and global health! Keep spinning those pedals!
Some of us can’t ride bikes. I will stick with my Jeep or Shank’s hobbled up mare.
Mr. Mike, you’re from Iowa so you’re an earth hater and want to burn up fossil fuels even in times like this. Even one-legged friends of mine are out there trying to ride those infernal bicycles. grudznick is also trying to learn. Iowa could try and keep pace.
grudz, I have always pictured you on a modified dog sled – pulled by ill-gotten goats. Very environmentally friendly.
Bike shops are open and busy here too. The market for hybrid bikes is pretty intense as well.
You have a keen mind, Mr. o. I have always seen that in you.
You are right about my usual mode of transportation, when they don’t come and drive me around, but these days a fellow needs to get out and try and get a little exercise and defy some of the local authorities. And grudznick is all about defying.
Hybrid bikes are for earth-haters who want to pillage the earth for rare metals for batteries, and then plug them into the grid to charge up from coal-fired power plants. If you want to be on a bike, be on a bike. If you want to ride a motor cycle, then stop pretending you are not an earth hater. Unless you are for nuclear power to charge those batteries. Then you agree with grudznick.
Dr. McT can back me on the battery issue here, I suspect. If he still has a job and access to the internet, and is safe and sound. I know many of my friends have been concerned about Dr. McT.
Grud you are so full of it.Why do you post here your using electricity or using a battery for your cell phone.Get real.
“Hybrid” originally referred to bikes with aspects of both a “road” bike and a “mountain” bike. The bikes you folks are talking about are “e-bikes”.
Considering the coup in Bolivia revolving largely around lithium, grudz is not baseless here, so far as I can tell.
Indeed! As Caleb notes, “hybrid” in Bicyclandia means something different from dual-fuel. My first really good bike was a hybrid: more upright posture than a racing bike for more comfort while touring, slightly heavier frame than a road bike to support extra touring gear, but narrower tires than a mountain bike for easier long-distance cruising.
Of course, all of my bikes right now are dual-fuel… on certain days and in certain directions, they run two-thirds on my leg power and one-third on wind power!
CAH: Lots of wind emitted from the DFP.
Super Sweet, I always have enjoyed thinking of myself as a force of nature.