Reasons to buy a bicycle instead of that contraption....
> It is cheaper. For the price, you could buy ten very good bicycles and a Gore-Tex rain suit for inclement weather.
> It is easily maintained by the owner. Just a small allen wrench set is all that is needed to maintain a good bike.
> It is lighter and more portable. It's already been mentioned that if you live on the second story of an apartment complex you can tote your bike right up the stairs and park it. A businessman can get himself a folding bike, take the bus downtown, ride to the office, fold the bike down, take it on the elevator to the office and set it next to his desk.
> The bicycle will improve your fitness level. Americans are becoming fatter and sicklier by the generation, and most of it has to do with lack of exercise and proper diet. If you rode a bike only on the days that weather permitted, your fitness level would improve dramatically.
> No recharging a bike. The range is limited only to your endurance, which gets better the more you ride. I've put 100 miles on my bike in one day..... no recharging necessary (well, except for my thighs and butt).
> And while we're on the subject of recharging, you ever stop to think of where the electricity comes from? If everyone in America all of a sudden decided to drive an electric car, there would be a huge energy crisis. How do you get out of an energy crisis of such magnitude? You crank up the coal plants, the nuke reactors, and dam up a couple of rivers. Not as environmentally friendly as you thought, eh?
Do yourself a favor. Get a good bike.
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