Comments rwelborn has made

Still waiting...

First decent EV to hit the states, I can assure anyone my car will be traded in ASAP.

Does it have to take this long, will I really have to pay 10 bucks a gallon while waiting?On Nissan wants to offer you an electric car by 2010 posted 1 year, 6 months ago 3 Responses

Moneybags Mcgee

We're saying get a trailer and deal with it, if you have no money. As for you, you bought a trailer, than an expensive xtracycle.  Which I really doubt you will put an adult passenger on back. Seriously people, when you are over a certain age, invest your own bike.  I love to see you carrying a adult and hit a nice sized hill.  I take it since you've recently gotten out of the drivers seat to pedal you're not going to be Lance Armstrong.  $450 is expensive, that's as much as a new bike itself.  

I bike and ride a bus,  I doubt a gigantic bike can fit on a bus bike rack.  So, there's another reason those giant sized bikes aren't really that cool.  To each his own, though.  If you like it ride on.

I must say, you are really representing Xtracycle with passion, do you work for them tucsonbiker?

There are still great ways to not have to fork thousands up for commuting.

Heck for that price anyone could go buy a cheap plug-in electric scooter if you don't like the exercise...
On Umbra on cargo bikes posted 1 year, 6 months ago 29 Responses

RE: Hip AND practical

I understand the comfort level thing.  I'm still gawking at the price.  1,800 can get you a completely pimped out mountain bike.  These are twice the cost of my Mountain bike which was a little overboard in my price range.  Most of my riding is trail-riding, which demands costly, well built parts.  I just don't see the need to buy such an expensive bike for what it offers. You can get around spending 1,800 with rear additions much like the yubaride bike has on it, or deal with the trailer and save 1000 dollars and take the extra cash and donate it to an environmental cause.

Or, you could even buy both of your kids bikes and teach them how to ride, and you could all buy saddlebags to get groceries in.

Your 11 year old can't ride his own bike?

I was a peddling fool when I was 4.

Just trying to prove more practical ways around chucking that amount of cash away.  But I guess if you have it, and a lot of it,  buy on.  Bikes in general rule.

Ride like this guy!

http://www.tensionnot.com/images/images/Weird_Pics604.jpg ...
On Umbra on cargo bikes posted 1 year, 7 months ago 29 Responses

Super news

Now climate change deniers get to have a field day so that coal and oil can make us their bitches for life.  Well least we have some cool weather,  I know that I will love that effect come August in Kansas.  

Rest assured global warming deniers our environment is still sick as a small starving child with malaria.

Yay!On Next decade could be cooler than expected, says study posted 1 year, 7 months ago 7 Responses

Mr. Time on his hands/hard worker!

I present to you J. Bailo!

WE all want to know what J. Bailo does for a living, besides being the biggest nay-sayer of Grist.org's opinions  

He obviously is a trust fund baby along with the writers of this website, right?  Writers are all rich babies!  Who has time to read through everything on this website...EVERYDAY?  Why are you a subscriber J?

PEOPLE! Keep your minds conservative!  The world is just fine, nothing is wrong with any of our leaders and their policies.  It's the democrats that want to destroy us and our leisurely american ways!

Let's change the laws and let GW run for another 4 years!  He is our only hope!  Right JB?  Everything is just peachy republicans have all the good ideas.  It's the democrats that got us where we are today.

Nay.On We need to be freed from gas, not the gas tax posted 1 year, 7 months ago 9 Responses

Cool.

Then we can spend money raising a bunch of them in a few years and try to re-release them into the wild and make a tv special about it.

How about you put your rifles down and quit taking all of these species natural homes away from them.

Impossible! How would hundreds of thousands of beef loving people eat?On Rule change eases restrictions on wolf kills in northern Rockies posted 1 year, 10 months ago 16 Responses

I know we lead at a few things for sure.

WE have the strongest military, the dumbest president ever and well, who knows about the economy, looks like that might drop from number 1.  

Zinger.On United States scores badly in world environmental assessment posted 1 year, 10 months ago 6 Responses

Super Duper

Ok, now that the meeting went exactly how we all wanted...Who wants to be aspirational first?

No takers.

Cool, let's meet next month same time same place, we'll go over what we probably aren't going to do, but might.On Second 'major economies meeting' this month in Hawaii posted 1 year, 10 months ago 3 Responses

You're no Polar Bear either,

I'll be more than happy to help Mr. New Jersey parachute out into Alaska without any clothes on.  You said you were very well adapted there in Jersey which can get pretty cold.  You might as well step it up a notch to see if your thick, but bare Jersey skin can take a even colder climate.  I mean, the bear is essentially surviving a much warmer climate than it is used to.  Show that bear your superior genomes!On Bush administration will offer oil leases in prime polar-bear habitat posted 1 year, 10 months ago 13 Responses