The Gospel According to John
My brother tells me cycling is the new golf but hey, I reckon it is the new religion. And verily I say unto you: liberate yourself from your motor cars, stir yourself from your slothful Sunday slumber and get on yer bike!
For mankind was intelligently designed to ride a bicycle. Do not the hands fall naturally onto the handlebars? The posterior naturally onto the seat? And the feet are cleverly designed to go round in little circles just like the pedals all due to that brilliant idea of having a bend at the knee!
There will be those who would argue against this and say that we evolved and adapted to the bicycle over time but they can produce no evidence to back up such silly ideas.
There are probably more people practicing this new religion on a Sunday than going to church and there are new converts all the time. Actually the churches would profit from a “Ride to Church” campaign! Kick it off in Bike Week maybe? Imagine the billboards outside the churches on cycleways: “Don’t ride past- drop in for communion and coffee!”
This also opens up questions about whether there is a cycling hell and a cycling heaven. Well, plenty of cyclists have related first hand experiences of both of them. They talk about that ride into Forbes on the last day of the 2001 Bigride into a howling headwind that reduced many to tears, or, back in the ‘90s, the 120 km Cooma Bigride day over mountainous terrain in freezing rain. Or, more happily, the two and a half hour totally downhill ride you can do from Kintamani to Ubud in Bali. Actually most cyclists idea of cycling heaven would be that it would all be downhill!
This new religion can’t promise eternal life but it can promise a longer, healthier, happier life and can back that up with statistics which all religions should have to do. And it could be the salvation of the environment too.
Anyway, I’m a believer!
Brother John 5/3/07
For mankind was intelligently designed to ride a bicycle. Do not the hands fall naturally onto the handlebars? The posterior naturally onto the seat? And the feet are cleverly designed to go round in little circles just like the pedals all due to that brilliant idea of having a bend at the knee!
There will be those who would argue against this and say that we evolved and adapted to the bicycle over time but they can produce no evidence to back up such silly ideas.
There are probably more people practicing this new religion on a Sunday than going to church and there are new converts all the time. Actually the churches would profit from a “Ride to Church” campaign! Kick it off in Bike Week maybe? Imagine the billboards outside the churches on cycleways: “Don’t ride past- drop in for communion and coffee!”
This also opens up questions about whether there is a cycling hell and a cycling heaven. Well, plenty of cyclists have related first hand experiences of both of them. They talk about that ride into Forbes on the last day of the 2001 Bigride into a howling headwind that reduced many to tears, or, back in the ‘90s, the 120 km Cooma Bigride day over mountainous terrain in freezing rain. Or, more happily, the two and a half hour totally downhill ride you can do from Kintamani to Ubud in Bali. Actually most cyclists idea of cycling heaven would be that it would all be downhill!
This new religion can’t promise eternal life but it can promise a longer, healthier, happier life and can back that up with statistics which all religions should have to do. And it could be the salvation of the environment too.
Anyway, I’m a believer!
Brother John 5/3/07
Labels: philosophy
posted by Coffs BUG member at
10:59 pm
4 Comments:
Brother John,
You have missed (or passed it too quickly going down one of those hills) your calling - certainly worth a spot on early Sunday am TV.
Annette
To Annette
Bless you sister!
Brother John
Brother John
and Sister Annette
Hitch up the habit and get on your bikes.
Regards the hill stooge
So you were a hill stooge all along April!
I should have suspected it!
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