Of course the charges won't stick. Local cyclist-rights group ARC (Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists) will take it to court and win. But even if the charges are thrown out, it's annoying and time-consuming to be ground through the tank tracks of the legal system. We've lobbed a volley of discordia into the empire of GM, and the cops swatted it down.

Round Two... Fight! This time, I say we build a REAL hybrid vehicle, not a half-assed clone of every other corporate car that vomits toxins into our breathing air, but a mega-bike with a practical purpose. Take up the whole lane, and use it for good, not for evil. We need to take a lesson from the Amish... they ride around town at low speeds because of their politico-spiritual beliefs, and the cops don't crack down on them.

You know those old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages, with a team of up to four horses pulling a covered wagon filled with passengers and their possessions? Well, what's to say that we can't do the same thing with a string of cyclists? With four hard-core bikers at the helm, I imagine that you could carry a fair bit or cargo. The venture could pay for itself, ferrying people and packages around the downtown core.

Of course, the design should be as adaptable as possible, to allow for interchagability between bikes and cyclists. Thats why I'm recommending a model that will allow four bikers to hook up to the frame that pulls the chassis, and to unhook themselves from the frame, all *on the fly*. Like Voltron, the Japanimation superhero of our youth, when the bikes unite, we will be greater than the sum of our parts!

Appropriately, I'm calling this supervehicle the REVOLTRON! I don't have either the welding skills or knowledge of bike mechanics necessary to pull this off, but I'd love to learn how. This project is inherently collaborative, so I'll putting a call out to every bike fiend in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond to put our heads and hands together on this one, and take back these mean streets with art cars like... Revoltron!