The Better World Club differentiates itself from other roadside/travel services by dint of its "dedication to preserve the environment." We're talking discounts on hybrid rentals and green hotels/eco-travel; the nation's only bicycle roadside assistance ("service for you and your bicycle up to 30 miles annually with a maximum of two service calls per covered member, per year"), free Carbon Credits with auto insurance, one percent of revenues (gross? net?) donated to environmental cleanup/advocacy and "a unique policy agenda includes supporting state attempts to regulate autos to reduce greenhouse gases." And just in case that isn't politically correct enough– and I'm thinking it is– Better World is now proud to offer married gay couples free membership. "We want to congratulate all the same-sex partners who are taking the big step," says Mitchell Rofsky, BWC President. "We didn't think you'd ever get married!" Don't worry if you're a gay couple in a state without gay marriage, or a breeder. BWC will "even" offer opposite-sex couples the same wedding present. "Gay marriage is good for everyone, so we're including all the June brides… grooms… spouses… whatever!" says Rofsky. In other words, BWC's using gay marriage to generate a fundamentally generic press release to lure media coverage. Mission accomplished.
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the nation’s only bicycle roadside assistance (“service for you and your bicycle up to 30 miles annually with a maximum of two service calls per covered member, per year”)
Now, how hard is it to actually carry a bike tire pump and emergency tire repair kit?
This is so yuppie…
Though I’m happy to finally see progress in the long struggle to give gay couples equal treatment under the law – why free membership to them and not all newly weds? Reverse discrimination (though implied only) does not make up for decades of homophobic discrimination.
I’m still scratching my head over the photo accompanying the article.
jaje
why free membership to them and not all newly weds?
“It will “even” offer opposite-sex couples the same wedding present.”
Gay and straight singles unite, this is unfair!
I don’t remember reading that line in the text. Well that’s good then that all newlyweds regardless of the partner’s sex get equal treatment.
good for them. i am pleased. I was gonna switch to them when click and clack got them as a sponsor. Now i’m prety sure im gonna do it. I like the bike rescue too –
AKM, i do carry a bike tire pump and emergency tire repair kit. I prefer not to change the tire myself. Much the same as i do have a spare tire and a jack in my car, but i choose to pay to have someone else change it.
This is an emergency roadside travel service. If you dont want help with these things, why join in the first palce?
I’m sorry, but was this cut and pasted from theonion.com? It reads like it was. It’s absurd enough…
uh… thanks?
Now all we need are equal rights and federal recognition… but hey, until then, we get 2 free tire pumps a year.
the nation’s only bicycle roadside assistance (”service for you and your bicycle up to 30 miles annually with a maximum of two service calls per covered member, per year”)
I don’t get it. I ride 4K to 6K miles per year and get twenty to thirty punctures. Any serious cyclist carries a spare tube, pump/CO2 cartridge, and a patch kit. Any non-serious cyclist is unlikely to ride far enough that he cannot walk back or call their wife/girlfriend.
What outrageous fee do they charge to come and fix your third flat of the year?
Qwerty:
i ride about 100 miles twice or three times a week, have had exactly one puncture in four years from a thorn. I ride in fairmount park in philadelphia, and west to valley forge. Where do u ride that you so get so beat up? maybe u need better tires?
Incidentally, i also blew one car tire in the same period.
Thats why i have emergency road service.
Where do u ride that you so get so beat up? maybe u need better tires?
In the West we have these little buggers called goathead thorns. In late Spring and early Summer I get flats rarely, but in Aug/Sept/Oct the thorn plants dry out, the thorns blow into the road, and you can get punctures every other ride.
The goatheads will go through about anything. You are screwed unless you are willing to swap your 23 mm racing tires with something big, ultra heavy, kevlar belted, and filled with half a pound of Slime, and that solution would defeat the purpose of a nice racing bike.
Glad to see that they’re “even” including heterosexual newlyweds, too. Most of the gay folks I know want inclusion (equal rights) not special ones.
It made me think of a Dolly Parton quote from several years back, when asked by Melissa Etheridge if she supported gay marriage- “I’m all for it! I think y’all should suffer like the rest of us!”
Along the same lines, these poor folks just shackled themselves to the married life…the least they deserve is a free membership to some ‘Better World Club’. =)
As for the photo, I’m imagining a scene very similar to the one in “Birdcage” when Nathan Lane shrieks, “Ahhhh! I pierced the toast!”
Bike flats? I use kevlar liners in my tires. I’ve rarely ever had a flat since. There is simply too much bad stuff on the roads (natural and man-made) to bother riding without liners.
Generic, huh? If it were so generic, wouldn’t everyone be doing it?
I’m a staffer with Better World Club. We wanted to do something to congratulate those who are finally getting married. As our release indicated, we already recognize domestic couples—who we believe are discriminated against by most other auto clubs.
But we didn’t want to discriminate to opposite sex couples either, so we extended our offer to all newly committed relationships. But just those. It’s not a cover for a discount for everyone as the posting seems to imply.
As to the picture, BuckD, it’s a picture from our home-page that the content creator on this site associated with our release. You can take a better look at it on our home page, http://www.betterworldclub.com.
And for the people discussing the bicycle service, don’t forget to take into account that ride service is included. If you’re touring the coast and bend your wheel, for example, a lot of riders won’t be able to complete the journey.