Why?

Because they're bad for the environment:

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It is axiomatic among environmentalists that substitution of human-powered transportation for single occupant automobile trips provides environmental benefits. Yet, given the current state of the
automobile-driving population, particularly in the United States, first-order environmental benefits can result in high second-order environmental costs due to increased longevity of those engaging in increased physical activity. That is, the energy savings due to the use of human power for transportation may be offset by the increased energy used by living longer due to better health.

They do dreadful damage to mens' reproductive capacity, according to an article in the August 1997 edition of Bicycling magazine:

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When he talks about bicycles, Irwin Goldstein, M.D., uses the same tone that other physicians reserve for cigarettes.

"Men should never ride bicycles," he says matter-of-factly. "Riding should be banned and outlawed. It's the most irrational form of exercise I could ever bring to discussion."

In his office at Boston University Medical Center, Dr. Goldstein treats six men a week on average, whom, he says, have become impotent from riding a bicycle. Overall, this urologist estimates there are about 100,000 men who have lost the ability to get or maintain satisfactory erections because of penile damage inflicted by either the bike's top tube or its saddle.

According to the US Center for Disease Control's Injury Center, each year in the United States, more than 500,000 people are nonfatally injured while riding bicycles. An estimated 140,000 children are treated each year in emergency departments for head injuries sustained while bicycling.

These infernal machines are injuring our children, they're making us impotent and they're wrecking the environment.

We must act now, before it's too late! Save our children, save our sperm, and save the planet!

AC is not going to like this...

NO problem then, since problem 1 - increased life expectancy due to excercising is mitigated by problems 2 & 3 - lower birthrates and higher accidental deaths.

Reading this thread made my balls hurt.

I thought all should know that.

How's your perineum?

haha...ew.

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We must act now, before it's too late! Save our children, save our sperm, and save the planet!

Ohh, it was about bloody time that somebody was opening a thread to mentioning that!

The article doesn’t even mention the energie needed to produce these large vehicles. Keep in mind that one vehicle is only transporting a single person at speeds of around 20km/h.

Much smaller vehicles that can achieve exactly the same

using way less material to achieve this goal. Therefore produce much less pollution during its creation.

And most importantly, they do not harm your sperm!

Some people are just not thinking at all.


p.s. That was sarcasm.

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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
How's your perineum?

So far, so good. Let's ask Marshdrifter about his.

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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:
How's your perineum?

Haven't heard that lovely term since I was a nurses aide ten years ago.

Peri care is what it was called.

Front to back!

We were discussing what the "peri" bit in perinatal meant the other day (I work in a hospital). I guess it must be the stitch they give you afterwards.

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Originally posted by Kradlum:
We were discussing what the "peri" bit in perinatal meant the other day (I work in a hospital). I guess it must be the stitch they give you afterwards.

I think in that context "peri" means "in-between" rather than referring to a specific body part.

Makes you wonder how one of Portugal's favourite spices, peri-peri, got its name.

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Originally posted by Gromit:
In his office at Boston University Medical Center, Dr. Goldstein treats six men a week on average, whom, he says, have become impotent from riding a bicycle. Overall, this urologist estimates there are about 100,000 men who have lost the ability to get or maintain satisfactory erections because of penile damage inflicted by either the bike's top tube or its saddle.

Ergo, damage resulting from motorcycle riding must be much worse, due to the higher speeds, vibration and forces involved, isn't it, Gromit? : )

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Originally posted by lithos:
Makes you wonder how one of Portugal's favourite spices, peri-peri, got its name.

*spits out a mouthful of Nando's*

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Originally posted by fuldog:
Ergo, damage resulting from motorcycle riding must be much worse, due to the higher speeds, vibration and forces involved, isn't it, Gromit? : )

Only if you retro-fit your motorcycle with one of these:



to replace one of these:



The mere contemplation of which is enough to make my eyes water.

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Originally posted by Gromit:

They do dreadful damage to mens' reproductive capacity

The less sperm the merrier. All you need is visual.

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Originally posted by Gromit:

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Originally posted by lithos:
Makes you wonder how one of Portugal's favourite spices, peri-peri, got its name.

*spits out a mouthful of Nando's*

Well, my work here is done.

I know that's how I season the chicken when I'm working at the refect.

Bicyclists are always lecturing to 'share the road.' I've lived in a number of environments where bicyclists share the roadways with motorists.

I'm very aware of bicyclists on the road, having spent a fair amount of time on two wheeled transportation. I'm particularly aware of them when they're on the wrong side, coming strait at me. Or blowing through a stop sign. Or cutting across several lanes of traffic without any kind of signal. Or switching from sidewalk to roadway and back again.
Or dressed in black, at night, with no reflectors...

Maybe bicyclists would get the respect they deserve if they were to start obeying the rules of the road.

I stopped riding a motorcycle once mobile phones hit a critical mass. I'm amazed that ANYONE thinks riding a bike is worth the steady risk of life and limb.

I can testify that an accident on my bike (caused by a motorist) resulted in the damage to my urinary tract which eventually caused my kidneys to fail. To make it better, the kidney disease caused high blood pressure which then caused me to have a heart attack.

I don't ride my bike anymore.

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Originally posted by Lester Zombie:
I can testify that an accident on my bike (caused by a motorist) resulted in the damage to my urinary tract which eventually caused my kidneys to fail. To make it better, the kidney disease caused high blood pressure which then caused me to have a heart attack.

I don't ride my bike anymore.

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