And that's too bad, the Tour is something that I love dearly, something I wanted to ride in, something I wanted to be competitive in".
That's a lot more than the €14 (about £11) price of an adult ticket up the Eiffel Tower, even if, as the PR company promoting the Shard helpfully points out, the "visitor experience" includes a 30-second ride in something called a "kaleidoscopic lift".
"One of my operating strategies for new products is always try to find a way to ride in on something hot," said Steve Eisner, who led Eisner Communications in Baltimore until it closed in 2006 and has published a novel, "The MineFields," about the ad business during the last three decades.
Push forward with your feet, if you are riding sitting down in something like a car, with your head sticking out.
Detractors have long cast a yellow taxi ride in New York as something of an urban surrender — a necessary expense when the subway is too crowded, the walk is too cumbersome, the burden of car ownership in the city is too much to bear.
He rode around the Commons in something of the same way Tony Blair did in happier days.
He decided to slide into her DMs instead of getting her number from a friend and asking her out to coffee or taking her for a ride in his helicopter or something?
If you are warm or cool, ride in a car or own something plastic, you've probably consumed something that passed through Louisiana's Port Fourchon, which supports 90 percent of deepwater rigs and 45 percent of shallow water rigs in the gulf.
Already, signs are emerging that the conditions might be dampening more than the feelgood factor which the Government had hoped might help us ride out the double-dip recession in something approaching a warm glow of national wellbeing.
If an influx of family and visitors make it difficult to do your usual workout (say, a gym visit or a solitary run or bike ride), try to get everyone involved in something seasonal, like ice skating (click here for a link to the UK's top ten seasonal ice rinks) or a winter walk.
Downcast subject matter aside, the synergy between the three artists results in something pretty celebratory, riding digi-dancehall rhythms and synthesized oohs and aahs into an upbeat mega-anthem about rising above what frustrates you presumably, in the loudest, most triumphant way possible.
