Equine Medicine And The Bicycle
I’m a big fan of Gary Larson’s The Far Side comics. Like all the best surrealism, they have their roots in reality.
Like this one:
This got me thinking…
Diagnosis Treatment Tired Ride a bike Sad Ride a bike Happy Ride a bike Late for work Ride a bike Rainy weather Ride a bike Overweight Ride a bike Look good in Lycra Ride a bike Comfortable clothes Ride a bike Meeting friends Ride a bike Want alone time Ride a bike Stuck in traffic Ride a bike Crippling fuel prices Ride a bike Too much shopping to carry Ride a bike Global warming Ride a bike Neighbourhood breakdown Ride a bike Old car smell Ride a bike Car repair bill Ride a bike Car insurance costs Ride a bike
As people far smarter than me have pointed out - it’s not that the bicycle solves any one problem, so much as it being part of the solution to many problems.
Great idea, I’ve been thinking about how the NHS should prescribe cycling as a cure for various ailments! I seem to remember a silly experiment where the NHS paid for gym membership? Come on doctors, start a research project using bikes to cure illness.
There’s a great one available as a postcard, which would be fund to adapt but you woudld need some drawing skills.
In its original form, it shows two dinosaurs, furtively grabbing a smoke. The caption is “Why the dinosaurs became extinct”.
Reckon you could draw a dinosaur driving a car?