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This week I would like to talk about easy economical dessert recipes, but I won’t be doing that. Instead I will be doing a brief series on alternative transportation. There are three main forms of alternative transportation; People powered, animal powered, and gas paid for by the state and local government powered. Those three categories break down as follows:

People powered: walking, bicycling, and walking fast.

Animal powered: Buggy, dog sled, horses, and hamster balls

Tax payer gas powered: buses, underground trains, elevated trains, and ground level trains.

This is an important topic and one that should be brought up because I believe that each and every one of these modes of travel can be utilized not just for travel, but also in picking up chicks. And with that in mind, we will start with cycling:

This past week I finally purchased a new used road bike. For those of you considering purchasing a bike, there are a few things that you need to think about before you pull the trigger. Things like; do I want to be ridiculously sexy? or would I like to keep paying for gas?

Bicycles are clearly the mode of choice among the big 3 People Powered methods. This is because it happens to be faster than both walking and even walking fast. In some cases it can be almost twice as fast. Sometimes I even have to slow down when going through school zones or in the house. Yeah, they’re that fast.

Not only is biking one of the faster of the people powered modes, but it is currently one of the trendiest. Just look at how much bicycles are going for on craigslist, Nothing that expensive could possibly be uncool, with the exception of medical bills and even then you probably have a cool story of how you got that parasite or rash. But if you need further proof, allow me to give a personal example. About a week ago, I was hanging out with my friend Brett. We were biking around town and decided to go to some party. Two buses and three hours later we arrived (fashionably late) at the party soaking wet and drenched in sweat only to find that it was a black and white party. Sure everyone else there was dressed way up, but we were the bomb. All the ladies were impressed. While other guys were wearing ties, we wore shorts, and t-shirts. Brett was even rocking the backpack. Although I think it was to cover the sweat stains on his back. Either way, that night, the party arrived on a bike.

As if that weren’t reason enough, bicycles are great personal transportation; they are also good for personal fitness. My thighs look like brontosaurus legs right now, and I mean that in a sexy way.

Unfortunately there are downsides to biking. For instance they are an excellent form of personal fitness, and like so many other misleading words in English, “fitness” turns out to be from two Greek words; “fit” and “ness” which literally translates into “more work than you originally thought.” And speaking of which, there are WAY more hills around than I thought too. I don’t care if you live in the plains of Kansas, the Earth is not flat.

And to top it off, there is no such thing as a comfortable seat on a bicycle. But besides a definite need for padded underwear, biking is my personal favorite alternative ride, at least until it’s socially acceptable to wear spandex short shorts to just walk around. Bow chick-a wah wah.