When you're on a bicycle don't behave like a car driver. It seems a pretty obvious thing to say but I constantly see cyclists like the one today in Elderslie waiting behind cars at traffic lights. Not only are you sucking on that exhaust pipe like a big old Cuban cigar but you are also vitiating the purpose of cycling: spontaneity, flow, and freedom. So, when I passed this middle-aged cyclist waiting behind a long line of cars in Elderslie I said to him: 'You're on a bicycle man, get to the front.'
This is where you belong, at the front. Are you not, after all, the vanguard of a new world order that says 'move everywhere under your own steam, spontaneously and renewably'? But this is man, not the aborigine. And so man needs telling once again: when you're in an animal body do not behave like a robot.
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