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Use Your Bicycle For Everything

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Date: 06/09/2008 Topics: Better Living > Frugal Living > Tips | Green Living > Transportation > Bicycle | Health & Body > Fitness  
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I drive very little as I have a bicycle with huge baskets on it. Yes, I always wear my bike helmet and wear proper clothing.

In my bicycle, I can carry 40 pounds of cat dry food, groceries, library books, etc. Just about anything! And I'm 70 years old but I limit up to 20 miles round trip.

It saves so much gas and it keeps me in excellent shape.

Joan from Melbourne, FL
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By amversev (1) Profile Contact
YOU GO GIRL.

Posted on 06/17/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Sally_Admin (154) Profile Blog! Contact
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Good for you Joan, keep on pushing them pedals

dasman1

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By Trundgirl (38) Profile Blog! Contact
Wow, good for you! We do try to ride bike as much as we can. Our 4 yr old outgrew our bike carrier but, we put him in it anyway when we are going on a longer ride. He is not very good on his bike yet so we do it and are careful. I love riding bike! My hubby use to be a cyclist and he wants to get back into it and I think I would love to do that with him/for him. Neat!

Chayil, you go girl! You can do it! It sounds like you have a good attitude and the smarts to go with it!

Be safe all!

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By PamelaW (20) Profile Contact
Far out Joan. Recently moved with folks, no car now. I'm thinking of 3-wheeler bike, is yours? Didn't realize you could tote 40 lbs+. And if you have cats, way cool. I had to leave my 15 year friend in a cat sanctuary. Keep on keeping on. Pamela AZ

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By Chayil (75) Contact
I just got a Dahon folding bike. I looked all around the town and the internet, and it's the perfect one. Not because it folds, not because it's lightweight, not because of the color. No, I got this bike because of the super-low step-through! I wear long skirts, and the Dahon Ciao P8 was the only one that had a chain guard and a step-through so low that it doesn't push my skirts up to my knees. I didn't even care that this bike could fold, or that it was the best bike out there for my size and other needs, but it is.

Now I expect to be losing quite a bit of weight, as I'll be going to the grocery store and back (about 5 miles round-trip) almost every day, rather than making one big trip weekly in my best friend's car. I'm also saving money on the gym membership I was going to get. Plus, I get to feel the freedom of the open road again, after a lifetime of feeling hemmed in by my own lack of transportation.

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By bluelobsters7 AT hotmail.com (Guest Post)
Nice article. Using a bike does help save money but the best part is the exercise. My bike is gone due to a flood, but eventually, I will get back to riding. I used to use a Dahon bike-the fold-up kind so that I could bring it on the trains--a very cool way to travel to different places.

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By Monique63 (131) Profile Blog! Contact
That's fabulous! My dad is also 70 and he's been working out for 30 years or more. Not in a 'going to the gym' way, just healthy exercising at home. One of his exercise aids is a broomstick with weights on the end!
It's very important to keep fit and healthy and he actually puts me to shame - as do you!
By the way, do you carry all that weight on your bicycle to make it harder to pedal?
Keep up the good work anyway, you are a credit to us all.

Monique
Somerset.UK

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By Paula Jo Carr Mebane, NC (Guest Post)
YOU GO GIRL! What a impressive thing for me to tell others, thank you for sharing this. We live 3 miles away from a grocery store AND I just hate to get into the car unless it is necessary because of the price of gas, BUT this is one thing I can do to get myself out & back into shape with and I am only in my mid 50's!

Thanks for sharing & please be careful.

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By Linda in Alabama (Guest Post)
Joan, you are so blessed to be so healthy! I'm in my 50's, and I don't think I could do that! Of course, that's my fault, because I hate to exercise! Keep up the good work -- I wish I lived by you, I would (try to) ride with you!

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By Monique63 (131) Profile Blog! Contact
That's fabulous! My dad is also 70 and he's been working out for 30 years or more. Not in a 'going to the gym' way, just healthy exercising at home. One of his exercise aids is a broomstick with weights on the end!
It's very important to keep fit and healthy and he actually puts me to shame - as do you!
By the way, do you carry all that weight on your bicycle to make it harder to pedal?
Keep up the good work anyway, you are a credit to us all.

Monique
Somerset.UK

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By kidzrus (32) Profile Contact
Wow Miss Joan, that's terrrific. Some 20 year olds couldn't do what you're doing. Congrats on your health and happiness. Sharon in Turkey

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