<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<STYLE></STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16945" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=MailContainerBody
style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"
leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 acc_role="text" CanvasTabStop="true"
name="Compose message area"><!--[gte IE 5]><?xml:namespace prefix="v" /><?xml:namespace prefix="o" /><![endif]-->
<DIV>
<DIV>Hello Tapio;</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I feel your comets were right on particularly about the lack of car free
areas in US cities. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Back in 1996 I went to the week long Car Free Cities Conference held in
Copenhagen. I gave a talk on my Up Hill assist for the simultaneously held
Bike Culture week. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There were as I remember 35 or so cities from many European countries were
present. No US cities were there. High on the list of helping solve
the car free areas was the bicycle. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>That was back in 1996. Since then more and more European cities
have adopted car free city centers. So naturally you would be very
sensitive to the lack of this here in the US. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John Tetz </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>