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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Some traffic stats
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:25:25 -0500
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On 3/14/2024 4:17 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:06:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Please. For ~99% of cyclists, bicycling is not a "sport."
> 
> Nonsense.

I'm with Mr Krygowski on that point.

Riding to work, grocery, accompanying children to and in a 
park and so on would not be described as 'sporting 
activities' by the participants or by observers.

As in so may fields the 'weekend warrior' cyclists get all 
the press but they are still a small subset of 'cyclists'.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971