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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The biking over-under on Barack Obama

Sen. Barack Obama went for a bike ride yesterday, and a number of PFN operatives asked us to comment. We'll go with the tried-and-true plus/minus system that works so well in professional hockey.

1. Bike helmet: +1
2. Trek bike: 0
3. Seat too low/frame too small: -1
4. Underinflated tires: -1
5. Adams trail-a-bike with superlame seatpost coupling. -2
6. Implicit pro-bike advocacy and all that implies: +2
7. Riding a rigid hardtail in granny gear: +1
8. Schrader valves (Blue Collar, yo!) : +1
9. Pulling an entire nation's head out of its collective ass: +9

Score: A perfect 10

4 comments:

Grendel said...

Sidewalk cycling: -10

Back to square one.

Anonymous said...

Would you rather he ride in the streets of Chicago while he has his daughter behind him?

Sounds like a GREAT plan.

Anonymous said...

Flat rear tire: -1

Anonymous said...

In Chicago it is legal for an adult (over 12) to bike on the sidewalk if pulling a trailer or trailabike with a child.