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hypernova:

--- Quote ---1) I am 15 pounds overweight and out of shape.
2) I am lazy when it comes to physical exercise.
3) It is 100 degrees and 95% humidity in the summertime where I live.

--- End quote ---

2 is ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---.

3 would take care of 1 in no time at all.  This is your chance to get physically fit, not spend ANY money on gas for work, and help save the planet just a hair.  Especially when you say it is 3.3 miles, I mean, come on, guy!  Oh, and you'd be riding in the morning, right?  It's cooler then.  And when it's time to come home, that's when you'll get your small amount of daily exercise.

Last summer, I biked to work.  Over 11 miles one way.  It lasted three days.  On the second day, my tire sprung a leak on the way home.  If the conditions of the roads and sidewalks were better, I'd be doing it again this summer.  (It took slightly less than an hour each way.)  And amazingly, I wasn't sweating when I got TO work.  That cool breeze in your face feels awesome.  (For comparison's sake...6'2", 160 lbs.)

3.3 miles?  That's nothing.

Plus you wouldn't have to go to a spinning class. ;D

Dartful Dodger:
Like hypernova says 3.3 miles is nothing and if you rode a bike to work every day 1 and 2 would be taken care of in no time.

More incentive is that a fat guy on a bike is sort of funny.   
But the image of a fat guy on a scooter is a riot.  Like one of those clowns on a little bike only you're not trying to be funny, which makes it even funnier.

I guarantee you'll hear someone humming the "fat guy in a little suit" song and other people will giggle, because when you're not around they sing "Fat guy on a little bike".

After two-three weeks you won’t be that “fat bike guy” and by the end of summer you'll just be one of the in shape guys.
On the other hand you could end up as that “fat scooter guy” for the rest of your life.

Cakemeister:
Too bad I don't have a twin, I could look like these guys:

ahofle:

--- Quote from: TOK on May 28, 2008, 08:35:26 am ---Its funny that you consider scooters safer than motorcycles. Falling off at 35mph feels the same if you're riding a scooter, a Harley or a Hayabusa. You are also actually safer on the freeway, because despite the speed everyone is heading in the same direction and there is nobody making left turns in front of you. All you have to watch out for is people merging.

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I completely agree with every word there.  I constantly see idiots on scooters with no helmets and people saying how they are so much safer than motorcycles.   :dizzy:

mpm32:
I am going to start riding my bike to work a couple of times a week - 22 miles each way.  Should take me about an hour.  I used to race so this distance is nothing to me, or it will be after a couple of weeks.  I haven't ridden in a year.

It will be nice to use my bike that happened to cost about the same as the scooter that Cakemeister bought.

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