john bono

Ah, great. Now I have images of Hillary in a lycra pantsuit. Thanks a lot, pal.

DataJunkie

Think John Kerry....

monk

I think Hillary is probably too old to cycle. Oops . . . we're talking about "bicycling" aren't we?

Retro Grouch 

I'm not sure but the last time around we had our choice between two cycling candidates. We picked the one who kept falling down.

The campaigns are pretty much about them parroting back at us what the polls have told them we want to hear. Consequently the campaigns don't provide any valid information to help us make an intelligent choice. If we picked the better cyclist we'd know we had a president who could do at least one thing well.

CommuterRun

I don't think there is a cycling candidate. At least not one pandering to the cycling vote.

The most moderate candidate seems to be Ron Paul. All the rest are either extreme right or extreme left. And then there's Clinton, who should be running for the Socialist Party.

wrafl

The whole DC area will be secured for that biker from the WH, no doubt.

Condorita

The lame duck currently occpying the White House.

JanMM

Yep, some village in Texas is missing it's idiot.

Gammerus

You didn't know? Paul has said his favorite thing to do when he gets free time is cycle.

rhm

Yeah, but the question should be, how does he get home? If he feels like going for a ride when he gets home, it's a safe bet he didn't ride there.

I like Ron Paul's stance on some issues, but on others he is very scary indeed.

Ka_Jun

Concurrence. Though in that case I did not vote for the cycling candidate.

Gammerus

Well probably. I remember during the interview he said something about trying to get in 10miles in every day. But this isn't about politics, this about how funny they old guy looks in bike shorts.

gpsblake

George W Bush

gear

The only candidate who has mentioned bicycling in any of their policy initiatives is Obama.

Stacey

You didn't learn the second time?

cyclezealot

I suggest the best means to determine how bike friendly they might be would be to check out their voting record in terms of the highway budget. Each year the highway budget has a huge fight over how much cash the highway lobby gets and how it is spent. See what aspects of alternative transportation each candidate supports. Does their support of alternative transporation expenditues allow for bike path construction as an example. ? Our lobby is the "American Bicycle Association, I think it is called. Our national advocacy organization. Maybe they post results for each candidate?
Don't know if it means anything, but Recall, John Edwards was found riding in last years' Iowa Ragbai tour? He presently has no voting record to check. /
A good source of information about Congressional votes is 'congresspedia.'

cyclezealot

I don't place an excessive amount of stock in speech making. Voting records is the best indicator.

ken cummings

The last time I was so thrilled with the choices I spent 3 years outside of the US. Not an option this time so , to quote "Candide" I will just tend to my garden. As to Hillary in Lycra as long as she is on a bike or doing her barre I can live with it.

cyclezealot

maybe one would suggest. Ron Paul might need a mountain bike with shocks. Cause, his roads might be pot holed. Other than that, he's a great guy. In fact Gammerus' photo. the road does sort of look pot holed?

Retro Grouch 

Now see, that's what happens when we allow one candidate to define his opponent.

All of the ads with Kerry windsurfing were produced by the Republicans to distract us from the truth. Kerry is actually a road bike rider who seldom falls off. Had we not been distracted from this fact maybe the whole world would be different today.

Retro Grouch 

I'm not so sure. Figures don't lie but liars figure. The candidates all pelt us with facts about how their opponent voted X number of times against (name your issue). The reality is that there are so many individual clauses that bills are seldom clearly about only one thing.

This is really just another way we allow candidates to define their opponent.

CastIron

I'm not a one issue voter. P&R time.

Juggler2

Cycling isn't even on my list of priority's for a Presidential candidate. I believe more can be accomplished on a local level, concerning cycling issues.

Elkhound

The Current Occupant is a cyclist, so it doesn't follow.

illdoittomorrow

Is it too late to write him in?