Cycles Perfecta

I've said it before and I'll say it again, courtesy of Ivan Illich's words: Equipped with a bicycle man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. 

In terms of home range and homing the bike can then catapult you out that little bit further.

Compare this if you will to the inefficiency of the motor car, the violation not just of the earth in order to make and fuel it but the violation of the body that sits inside it. It's a no brainer, quite literally, but most of us feel forced into cars by the structure of our society, through our being dislocated from the local and from being pushed into the meat grinder of capitalism + globalization. Cars then become necessary to save time, to ease our entrance into the grinder and perhaps most importantly to ease our escape from it at the end of each day. But cars should never be necessary. Only a society that is in a state of cannabilization would see such a device as necessary. What we need is a healthy society that promotes essentialness and essence and not necessity. That means bicycles and your own two feet, and not cars and sitting on your fat ass whilst farting all over the great outdoors. 

Cycles perfecta... !