I Need to Ride myBicycle, I need to ride my bike. Rumour has it that Freddie Mercury wrote the lyric for 'Bicycle Race' while watching a leg regarding the Tour de France from his Parisian hotel in 1978. In those heady days of excess the thought of basically riding a bicycle breezing through the new space was no doubt appealing - if impractical - mostly provided the pollution from traffic in Paris at the time! If Freddie had stopped to ponder about it he should have noted that cars had grow to the primary shape of transport and riding a bicycle had grow to a whimsical, even eccentric pastime. Who should have thought that higher than 30 years on we are getting return on our bikes! It was brought building to me when my business was recently asked to manufacture longlasting cycle racks to be integrated into the garages of an special private housing development. This is with the assumption that residents shall actually use the bicycles and that is why the racks and this, probably on 3 counts:-.
Firstly, helping the environment - no need for petrol = fewer pollution = very little carbon footprint. Secondly, keeping fit with one regarding the greatest cardiovascular exercises you can do. Final but not least, real savings in most gym membership and petrol costs. Okay, maybe some people really shall like cycling, possessing to wear two of those 'melon head' helmets is probably outweighed by the sheer wheeeeh moments of going below a hill with legs akimbo. But, is this the tip regarding the iceberg in that soon our RoyalFamily may take to bicycle saddle as the Dutch Royal Family have done for years? Where is it all going to end - are we soon going to look Charles and Camilla on a tandem? Actually, it should be barely difficult to be an up to date Royal in this day and age, possessing to balance attendance one evening at an above endbanquet and the next evening in a sleeping bag at a dropout centre.
As Heroclitus spoke about There is nothing constant except change and that I can accept, however the current trends seem to be directing us to take a step backwards? I should not be surprised if two of our creation gurus suddenly 'discovers' the greatest eco-friendly stove is to dig hole within the garden and light a fire with warm stones. If we reach that stage, I shall definitely exclaim Wilmaaaaa!.
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