As fuel prices shoot up people are starting to wake up from their gasoline-induced life styles.

Modern geared cycles are the most efficient transportation machines ever devised. In terms of energy input per mile nothing else comes close. I burn only about 500 to 800 calories to ride my trike 10 miles round trip with a combined weight of 450 pounds. Most Americans eat more calories than that for breakfast.

Unfortuanalty most of us can't even bear the thought of pedaling so much weight up any hills at all. So I think that electric motors will be very popular.

VELOMOBILE pedal cars invented by Charles Mochet (mochet.org) in the 1930�s as affordable transportation in France had four wheels. When they made a recumbent bike that threatened to change the face of racing, recumbents were banned from racing! That and the love affair with fast cars and cheap fuel helped them lose popularity until the 1970�s when they started setting world class track records to win money. The world record for an aerodynamic HPV is over 80mph now.

TRICYCLES are much easier to haul cargo with than bikes because of the slow speed balance problems when climbing hills. Even if you have a good trailer, balancing perched on top of two wheels can be a real work out.

The ultimate trike would lean like a bicycle and have a long fairing to keep the rain off. No one make them yet but they will be soon.

With a fairing and an electric motor to help us lazy Americans up the hills, I believe these machines will become a viable alternative to driving gas gulping SUV�s around a small town that doesn�t have enough room for them anyways. This kind of light foot print transportation goes hand in hand with all the other life style changes that support a healthy world, like eating locally grown organic foods.

Non-motorized transportation is already the most prevalent form of transportation on this planet. America is way behind the rest of the world.

If you think these trikes are too expensive, do the math on your car! (Purchase, matanance, insurance, fuel and environmental damage)

WALKING may not be the most efficient use of leg muscle but it is the least harmful to our thin biosphere. And walking helps align the spine; it is simply the best form of exercise, and the best way to burn fat. Not that obesity will be a problem if sugar and fat are going to be used for Biofuels. I predict that walking with carts that have pneumatic tires will be very popular for shopping; and running will be faster than ever with spring-loaded boots (powerskip.de).

Commuting on the bus is difficult to find room for a bike even if it fits the racks (41" wheel base). folding bikes are the way to go.

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