Favorite place to ride?
- Number of Voters
- 92
- First Vote
- Monday, 09 October 2006 13:01
- Last Vote
- Tuesday, 01 May 2012 22:57
Favorite place to ride?
| Hits | Percent | Graph |
|---|---|---|
| Snowden Demonstration Forest | ||
| 21 | 22.8% | |
| Mount Washington | ||
| 21 | 22.8% | |
| Beaver Lodge Lands | ||
| 16 | 17.4% | |
| Road | ||
| 11 | 12% | |
| Cumberland | ||
| 9 | 9.8% | |
| Along the Seawalk | ||
| 7 | 7.6% | |
| All of the Above! | ||
| 7 | 7.6% | |
Energy and Equity
Philosopher Ivan Illich, in his essay Energy and Equity, wrote:
Man on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.
