Saving The World With a Cheap Mountain Bicycle

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By Wesman Todd Shaw

Really! I'm Going To Save America!!

It's such a beautiful day today in North East Texas that I just couldn't stay inside. I just had to get out and ride my cheap mountain bicycle. No, there are no mountains anywhere around here. Basically, the term refers to a bicycle that you can ride off road, or on dirt and gravel, or rock roads with greater ease than you could with a Lance Armstrong style racing bicycle.

Besides the facts that bicycles are my only means and mode of transportation other than "neal and pat," my two feets; I also like to ride my bicycle to pick up aluminum cans. Picking up and selling aluminum cans is a great way to not only get exercise for increased health, but to also earn un reported tax free income. While I think that paying local taxes is a great thing, I find IRS taxes an abhorrent aberration to the American culture for so many reasons that I can't possibly list them all. Yes, I had to digitally sign a damn tax form for my Google Adsense account, but NO, I find it disgusting that anything that I do could go to support corporate fascist American wars which kill not only "enemy" combatants in the war for corporate America and international banking cartels; but also, our "war on terror" also poisons the innocents of those lands for the next four billion years with depleted uranium munitions, so I think that the IRS is a criminal enterprise that should be abolished right away, yesterday would have been preferred, but today will suffice just fine, thanks.

Oh, and don't forget how we sometimes shoot unarmed innocents on the streets with helicopter gunships; we've all seen that video.

Not only those things, of course, are horrific, we also have exposed our own soldiers, most of them practically children, with the same depleted uranium munitions, and we've denied it. Bush and Bush Jr. That New World Order thing, and that smirk that I'd love to slap off of a face.

A Cheap Mountain Bicycle

A cheap mountain bicycle is far superior to a nice expensive one in dozens of ways. You see, it's harder to ride a cheap mountain bicycle, and so you are able to get better and more exercise by riding it. Lots of Americans are overweight. Lots of Americans need to be riding cheap mountain bicycles, but they should leave the aluminum cans alone because those are mine.

Picking up aluminum cans as you ride your cheap mountain bicycle is better exercise than just riding a cheap mountain bicycle is, as you've constantly got to get on, and off, start, and stop. It's wonderful for your heart, your legs, and your lungs. I think it's also good for my libido, but a light breeze is good for my libido as well, use your imagination for that one.

Picking up aluminum cans while riding your cheap mountain bicycle beautifies your neighborhood. It makes you physically more beautiful when you ride your cheap mountain bicycle and pick up aluminum cans, and it gets the garbage out of the ditch and the road; except that aluminum cans picked up while riding a cheap mountain bicycle are not garbage, they are tax free income that doesn't support foreign murder and oppression, or the poisoning of U.S. soldiers with depleted uranium munitions.

One must, however, realize that simply saying that U.S. soldiers are poisoned with depleted uranium munitions is rather simplistic and totally incomplete, the reason that it is incomplete is because there are other Western nations that have soldiers being poisoned with depleted uranium along with ours. And depleted uranium munitions also poisons the spouses of the soldiers when they do the whole marital physical thing, and if that marital physical thing produces children, those children will be deformed or damaged by depleted uranium munitions poisoning as well.

But what do I know? I'm just a guy that rides a cheap mountain bicycle and picks up aluminum cans on the side of the road; and you are likely the man or woman that looks at me funny when you drive your SUV past me on the road, and you pay for that SUV from the income from a job that requires you to pay a lot of money to the criminal IRS, which then spends money to create depleted uranium munitions, and I don't find those on the side of the road, or if I do; I'm too stupid to know it, and that's why I don't have a job in the depleted uranium poison industry. I just ride a cheap mountain bicycle for my health, and pick up aluminum cans so that you can have a more beautiful neighborhood to drive your SUV down the road to, and so that you can feel superior when you look at me funny while I'm picking up aluminum cans and riding a cheap mountain bicycle.

But perhaps I've digressed. Digression is another one of my faults, and that is another reason why I pick up cans, and have a much better level of health than you do; but financially, you rock!

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Education and the Cheap Mountain Bicycle

Education isn't something that one gets in American schools these days, indoctrination into corporate fascist xenophobic and ethnocentric american corporate fascism is what is taught.  This is why we import skilled labor from other countries almost as fast as we export jobs.  We are a great nation of exporters here in America, and jobs that used to belong to people who sit at home and collect unemployment while I'm out riding my cheap mountain bicycle and picking up aluminum cans are our greatest export.

Cheap mountain bicycles have breaks, and gears, and even the time honored engineering marvel known as "the wheel."  Actually, there are, I think, two wheels on my cheap mountain bicycle, but science, engineering, and math were never as important as football was in Kaufman, Texas; so I might have to ask someone from India or Pakistan for secondary confirmation on my idea about there being two wheels.  I also don't know any football positions other than quarterback, and I want my quarterback for that beer I just bought with my income from the aluminum cans that I picked up from my cheap mountain bicycle, which I THINK, has two wheels on it.  Why is the price of beer going up? 

Oh, probably to pay for the cost of importing people who know "complicated" engineering things, like how to adjust the cables and breaks and stuff on a cheap mountain bicycle.  I'm actually very glad that my country is looking out for people that ride bicycles, like I do.

Thanks to the Department of Homeland Security, I Can Ride My Cheap Mountain Bicycle Without FEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comments

inmate702 15 months ago

It is a nice day in my part of Midwest, sunny, however it is 25F and the snow is melting...

Would it be wise to ride any bike here???

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 15 months ago

I don't know, Crin; probably not, but can's with frozen liquids in them sell for more than cans without frozen liquid in them, the frozen liquid tends to trick the scales into thinking that there is more aluminum there than there actually is!

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justom Level 4 Commenter 15 months ago

WTS~ teller of truth is a bicycle rider. The best way to see real life!! Oh shit...I don't ride..oh well, it's still the truth.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 15 months ago

Thanks Tom!!! I also get all sorts of ideas for venting with hubpages when riding a cheap mountain bicycle; yet another benefit!!!!

Hey dude, I saw a pill bottle in the ditch with a plastic baggy inside of it, I thought I'd hit the lotto until I realized that the plastic baggy inside was. . . .sadly, empty!

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christopheranton Level 7 Commenter 15 months ago

I wonder can you get money from picking up cans here in the UK. If you can I might be getting my own cheap mountain bike as well.

You are a fund of brilliant ideas Wesman. Thanks.

Dont fall off.

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 15 months ago

Hey Christopher, of course I can't say for certain; but surely there are scrap metal yards in the U.K. where one can sell metals from. . . .well, basically anything that is metal is worth money; but typically aluminum, copper, and brass are collected and sold to the yards.

Tin and Iron can be sold, but they are worth so little that you'd have to have a truck or trailer loaded down heavily with them to get much of anything. Stainless steel is another good metal worth a good deal of money in bulk, but it's sometimes harder to come by. Think of closed down kitchens with stainless steel tables and sinks, that sort of thing.

The thing is, Christopher, that you shouldn't talk on a cell phone while riding a cheap mountain bicycle at night. You see, you could run into a dog, and go flying, and land on your elbow, bleed, bruise, and have to get up, not get bit by the dog, and look for your cell phone while hoping that it still works.

Not that I'd ever know anything about anything like that; I've just got lots of imagination sometimes :=\

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lightning john 15 months ago

Wesman, I can't believe this. I just came in the door from riding my cheap bike as well. DeeDoo DeeDoo.

No seriously I purchased a M-20 Raleigh montain bike back in 02. I haven't been on it for over a year, so I'm trying ro get back in shape. Some of those bikes cost almost as much as cars now. Mine was 270.00 so I may have got rooked! Back in 2002 I lost everything that I owned, (long story) anyway, I bought that bike and after I got out of the hospital. I moved to Florida and was basicly homeless for a while. After a year of riding, my legs looked like Conan the Barbarians. Then after some time and several hundred dollars later the state of Oklahoma gave my licence back. They didn't like it that my truck was faster than their patrol cars.

As far as those people in those big Suvs F---em.

Sometimes digression is progression, you just don't realize it at the time. Lj

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 15 months ago

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is such an awesome comment in so many ways that I'd have to write a hub to explain it all!

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lightning john 15 months ago

I'm looking forward to it! Wesman Todd. BTW I like that new avatar you got there. Lj

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 15 months ago

Hey Lightning John, thank you! Look up in the comments here and find "Justom," he did that for me; the original photo is on a hub that I did about the guitar I'm holding, a Martin 00 17

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Brian Burton Level 4 Commenter 7 months ago

AWESOME!!! Loved the whole thing. One of the many parts that was great was the part about buying a cheap mountain bike for more exercise. And fantastic idea about picking up aluminum cans for exercise. Liked, VOTED UP, etc... Excellent hub!

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Wesman Todd Shaw Hub Author 7 months ago

Hey Thanks Brian Burton - if nothing else, I have lots of anger and sarcasm.

....and I've got several really cheap mountain bikes!

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