*BURN CARBS NOT HYDROCARBS* Multi-modal commuting for a greener, saner city
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A mini-sustainability symposium
A city near you--
by Lynette Chiang, Bike Friday Customer Evangelist
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The last mile problem is no problem with a multi-modal bicycle
TIRED OF THE PEAK HOUR STANDSTILL? Envious of fit cyclists cruising past the congestion? Like to ride but need more cues, clues, companionship? Burn Carbs not Hydrocarbs is a loose format for presenting concise information to get new riders or weekend cyclists to consider using a bike as daily transport. A panel of bicycling movers and shakers in the cycling community of your city present a "mini-sustainability symposium" of new, novel and increasingly necessary ways you can transform your daily commute. Meet these cycling advocates, learn about riding with bike buddies, and open your mind to bicycles built for a sustainable future: the multi-modal - or folding - bicycle.
As with anything unconventional, the adoption of the folding bike as mainstream transportation alternative will take time to sink in, but the benefits, as described below, are compelling. And that's not just because we sell them! Bike Friday encourage individuals, bike shops and bike clubs to put together your own "mini sustainability symposiums" to help create that change - if one person turns up and rides, that's little by little. Take a look at some of the formats for symposiums that have already taken place.
Contact Bike Friday Customer Evangelist Lynette Chiang to stage this event with Bike Friday in your city.
The new tikitTM, Bike Friday's answer to global oil addiction, welcomes all multi-modal bikes to help the world burn carbs, not hydrocarbs!
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DO I EVEN NEED A FOLDING BIKE?
Traffic experts deliver Sydney's bad news: "It's getting worse" (and that was 2006).
Any decent bicycle will certainly get you from A to B. But with increasing transportation problems in many large cities all over the world, the multi-modal or folding bicycle is increasing in popularity. Consider the benefits:
- Increases the radius of A and B, using bus, train, car, ferry.
- Solves the Last Mile Problem - getting from front door to transit stop, transit stop to work and back again.
- Properly bagged, passes through doors and onto public transport as luggage, audiovisual equipment, a french horn?
- Can be taken right up to your office, rather then be left outside
- Travels safely and cleanly inside your car
- Can pack in a standard suitcase for airline travel, avoiding airline fees
- With a low stepover design, fits a wide range of people from kids to seniors - witness Bike Friday Super Seniors and the impact on the health system
- Lets you ride more places, more often. You need never be without your "human amplifier".
More stories about the multi-modal way of life:
Commuting on a Friday Make that Sunday to Friday
The tikitTM Bike Friday's response to the global oil problem
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