CONTACTTRAFFICABOUT TOM VANDERBILTOTHER WRITING CONTACT ABOUT THE BOOK
« Supreme Court: Accidents During Crimes Are Still Crimes
Seen Reading »

Cash for Clunkers: The Bike Edition

“Cash for clunkers” is a potentially bad idea, for a number of reasons that have been explored elsewhere.

But as long as one is seeking stimulus, and ostensibly green benefits, why not extend the program to bikes? The ETA (the other ETA!) has a petition here.

I’m looking to upgrade my old Gary Fisher and wouldn’t mind some tax joy.

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [MySpace] [Slashdot] [StumbleUpon] [Yahoo!]

This entry was posted on Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 7:28 am and is filed under Bicycles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Cash for Clunkers: The Bike Edition”

  1. Jack Says:
    May 1st, 2009 at 8:20 am

    I have an ‘87 year-of-the-crash Fisher and upgraded it years ago with Phil Wood hubs-BB, new saddle, Grip Shifts, SoftRide stem and use it as my shopping cart. Wouldn’t consider trading it in and besides my young sons look forward to using it some day.

  2. Karl-On-Sea (Twitter: @karlonsea) Says:
    May 1st, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Despite his recent move to grown up cycling clothes (mmmm - Dashing Tweeds!), I’m sure there’s nothing old about Gary Fisher . . .

Leave a Reply

Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

Order Traffic from:

Amazon | B&N | Borders
Random House | Powell’s

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [MySpace] [Slashdot] [StumbleUpon] [Yahoo!]
U.S. Paperback UK Paperback
Traffic UK
Drive-on-the-left types can order the book from Amazon.co.uk.

For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

Upcoming Talks

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [MySpace] [Slashdot] [StumbleUpon] [Yahoo!]
Twitter
May 2009
M T W T F S S
« Apr   Jun »
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031