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Cycling schmykling

October 17, 2007 on 10:15 pm | In Uncategorized |

Today was Ride to Work Day. Easy for me, I work at home most of the time now.

I wouldn’t have liked to get on a pushie to ride to work when I lived in Sydney though. Even if I survived the homicidal maniacs who love to fly up the kerbside lane doing 50 ks more than the rest of the traffic, there are too many hills in Sydney. And I sweat a lot. Cycling in a suit for half an hour in summer would have had me arriving at work with unsightly wet patches all over the place. And don’t start on this crap about employers providing showers at work. You seriously think someone’s going to cycle to work, cool off, have a shower and get changed into their work clothes every morning? And is the employer going to provide an instant dry-cleaning service too? I don’t think my Ermenegildo Zegna suit with matching silk shirt and tie would have scrubbed up too well after being jammed into a back pack for an hour.

Then every evening the poor bloody workers are expected to repeat the process in reverse. Great fun if one of those refreshing spring thunderstorms has blown up during the afternoon. I’m cycling in the rain … I’m cycling in the rain …

Maybe it’s all a plot to convince workers that the trip to and from work is too much trouble. That way they might stay in the office all week and just make occasional trips home at weekends to check on the kids.

Fortunately when I do have to travel these days, I can rely on my trusty Cowasaki.