Sun-Ra on Wheels

You can make certain assumptions about people based what sort of car they have.  General assumptions, like if they have a BMW without any rust or dents then they probably are not broke.  It's not so much a car thing, it's more of a vehicular thing.  How a person gets around in indicative of what type of things they are getting around to.  A guy riding a tractor, for example, is probably a farmer, or at lest works on a farm... or at lest is a tweeker, steeling chemicals to make meth from a farm and is slowly getting away.  

Many different people ride bikes, in cosmopolitan areas, anyhow.  If you see someone on a bike in a rural area, odds are they have some sort of personal fitness goal they wish to meet or maintain.  The the city, you could use it simply because it is easier to find parking at the shops around town, the exercise, maybe even strictly out of necessity.  

Amongst all the cyclists in the city, you can tell who the crazies are.  Not just the ones who can't afford a car or caught a DUI,  not just the one's living out of shelters, but the crazy hobos.  That's not to say that if you are a hobo that you are crazy, or even that'd you'd have to be crazy to ride your bike in unfavorable weather conditions.  But there are those who slowly ride by you in a hail storm.  Their bike only movies marginally quicker than walking speed but the rider is peddling feverishly.  Not only is he forever stuck in a low gear but also his knees jut out and are never extended totally strait because the seat is also way too low.  Many time's this guy will shout things at traffic, either real or imagined.  Sometimes he will carry a simply carting a sign that reads "SATURN or BUST".

Out these guys, the fraction of these crazy hobos that are like the top 1% craziest of the crazies, are the ones that I pick up in my truck.  Most the time I'm not heading all the way to Saturn, but I'm willing to help them get that much closer.