About two months ago, Coy Wells began leaving his truck at home and riding a new Honda 919 motorcycle to work.
The economic downturn and rising fuel costs pushed him to buy the black motorcycle for about $5,000, said Wells, a Whole Foods employee who commutes 54 miles round-trip each day from his home in Cedar Park.
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31-Mar-2008
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Watch out for this move to motorcycles and scooters. We are just trading off gasoline costs for health care costs -- a losing proposition. Go to any city that is scooter intensive like Florence Italy and you will see people hobbling around all over the place. Those are the ones that survived and weren't disabled.
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