Mankind
has invested more than four million years of evolution
in
the attempt to
avoid physical exertion.
Now
a group of backward-thinking atavists
mounted
on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops
would
have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our
lungs
as
though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by
saber-toothed tigers.
Think
of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure
force of will that,
over
the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de
Ville.
Bicycle
riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.
P.J.
O'Rourke
