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Whether you are riding an electric bicycle for casual fun or as your primary form of transportation, an electric bike will enhance your health, strength, mobility, and enjoyment. An electric bike isn't just a different kind of bicycle, it's a new form of transportation and personal transformation.
Seven Reason to Ride an Electric Bike
An electric bike is an incredibly seductive form of exercise. You won't ever need to force yourself to get on the bike. You'll want to. It will make you feel good. You still get exercise, you just don't ache. It's like having your fairy god mother tap you on the shoulder with her magic want and make you twice as strong. If you have physical disabilities or encumbrances, an electric bike can mean all the difference in the world. If you're just out of shape, an electric bike can mean feeling healthier day in and day out. Either way, you'll ride your electric bike and appreciate how "no pain, no gain" becomes “all gain, no pain.”
An electric bike is an exceptionally convenient
form of transportation. It’s simple and quick. You can easily move
yourself around town. You can also carry two big bags of groceries
and whatever else you want to load onto the bike. An electric bike
can easily carry a child-seat or tow a child trailer.
By removing the hassles of parking and adding the endorphins of an
easy bike ride, an electric bike can replace a car for neighborhood
errands.
An electric bike can be cheaper than a gym membership, car insurance, or car payments. For many people, an electric bike will replace the car for neighborhood errands, enable them to drive a car significantly less, or replace a car altogether. A car costs $.10-.40 per mile to operate (including purchase price, insurance, taxes, and maintenance). An electric bike costs pennies per day. It's one of the most convenient and cost effective form of transportation since, well, the bicycle!
An electric bike saves you time. It eliminates the time spent looking for parking. It eliminates time waiting for the bus. It's often faster ride than the bus! Traffic jams can be avoided via side streets. Whether you live in the city or in the suburbs, an electric bike is timesaving, practical transportation.
On an electric bike, parking ceases to be a hassle since bikes easily find parking where cars drive around the neighborhood searching. If you live in the city, parking is often something valuable beyond a price tag. An electric bike can pay for itself just with what you'll pay in parking tickets (maybe with car insurance thrown in)!
Our choice of transportation has a direct and significant impact upon both our lives and the world around us. An electric bike is high-utility, low-impact transportation. In many parts of the country, the automobile is the top contributor to local air, water, and noise pollution. A large percentage of cars are driven used for short trips (often miles or less) with only one person in the car.
Replacing the high impact of a single passenger car with the low impact of an electric bike will make a positive difference for both the individual and environment. Our choices have an impact on the future. An electric bike is healthy step in the right direction.
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U.S. Route 66 (also known as the Will Rogers Highway after the humorist, , and colloquially known as the "Main Street of America" or the "Mother Road") was a highway in the U.S. Highway System.. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66, US Highway 66, was established on November 11, 1926. However, road signs did not go up until the following year. The famous highway originally ran from Chicago,Illinois, , through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, , encompassing a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song (written by Bobby Troup and performed by the Nat King Cole Trio and The Rolling Stones, among others) and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s. More recently, the 2006 Disney /Pixar film Cars featured U.S. 66.
Championed by Tulsa, Oklahoma businessman Cyrus Avery when the
first talks about a national highway system began, US 66 were
first signed into law in 1927 as one of the original U.S.,
although it was not completely paved until 1938. Avery was
adamant that the highway have a round number and had proposed
number 60 to identify it. A controversy erupted over the number
60, largely from delegates from Kentucky which wanted a Virginia
Beach–Los Angeles highway to be US 60 and US 62 between Chicago
and Springfield, Missouri. Arguments and counter-arguments
continued and the final conclusion was to have US 60 run between
Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Springfield, Missouri, and the
Chicago–L.A. route be US 62. Avery settled on "66" (which was
unassigned) because he thought the double-digit number would be
easy to remember as well as pleasant to say and hear.
The state of Missouri released its 1926 state highway map with
the highway labeled as U.S. Route 60.
After the new federal highway system was officially created,
Avery called for the establishment of the U.S. Highway 66
Association to promote the complete paving of the highway from
end to end and to promote travel down the highway. In 1927, in
Tulsa, the association was officially established with John T.
Woodruff of Springfield, Missouri elected the first president.
In 1928, the association made its first attempt at publicity,
the "Bunion Derby” a footrace from Los Angeles to New York City,
of which the path from Los Angeles to Chicago would be on Route
66. The publicity worked: several dignitaries, including Will
Rogers, greeted the runners at certain points on the route. The
association went on to serve as a voice for businesses along the
highway until it disbanded in 1976
IT HAS BEEN A
BRUTALLY COLD WINTER in the New Hampshire coastal town of
Rye Harbor, leaving drifts of sea water frozen solid in the salt
marsh. Finally, the weather warms enough for the ice to
begin to break up and drift out to sea. That's when a
woman's body is found under a slab of ice left by the outgoing
tide. Max, the feisty redheaded bartender at Ben's Place,
recognizes that the body in the ice is her aunt's partner, these
triggers a series of events that will eventually threaten Max's
life as well. It is up to her best friend, Jack Beale, to
unravel the mystery.