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I don't think I've ever gone on a bike ride carrying a pen ...

Simon L6 wrote: The rickshaw riders are fearsomely fit

They need to be. I moved house on one of those bikes (in cargo bike configuration), and it really does take a bit of welly to get it rolling.

Indeed, not a month goes by when I don't silently give thanks that the Lib Dem mayoral candidate (aka LTDA stooge) isn't running the city. Given the Highway Code rule that you should allow cyclists as much room as you would a car when overtaking, I can't really see how they're holding up traffic muc...

hubgearfreak wrote:on weds, i was cycling a doors width away from a line of parked cars, when a tracksuited & baseball-capped fellow on a BSO came zooming past me and suggested :

"get in you clown"

Did you drop him?

wallyone wrote:Lycra should be banned from being visibly worn by anyone over 40.

I can think of at least one counterexample straight off the bat, but she's a good friend and I won't be posting photos...

Lycra for >5 miles. Whatever I happen to be wearing anyway if less than that

The 8freight is a pretty awesome piece of kit, ime. I just wish he'd build a four-wheeled version (we want to put heavy speakers up at head height, a two wheel bike's not stable for that)

I will be pleased and surprised if anything happens as a result.

If the van was a commercial van I believe it is usually more productive to report to the company (who may well care about their reputation) who owns it than to the police (who probably will not prioritise following it up)

It's simple. Ride on the roads. The law is very clear about that. and then until we get all weather [sustrans] routes that take us where we actually want to go, anywhere we actually want to go they should be considered no more a highway than a bridlepath. I haven't checked the relevant legislation ...

And yet countries with the greatest per capita cycling use have the most practically equipped bikes. Granted, but getting that attitude here is going to take a real change in public opinion which won't happen. Current cyclists are "early adopters", and early adopters want to be seen to be...

I'm sure it's partly an image thing, but what's wrong with that? If you want to sell more people on the benefits of cycling, then appealing to the 'sport' image is a perfectly good way to do it - look at car ads. I'm sure most of the people who are going to be put off cycling by getting wet on guard...

Not all that new - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Economists call it the "paradox of thrift" - if nobody spent any money and everyone saved, there would be a much smaller economy, and we'd all lose our jobs. And this is why I don't understand economics, because I can't see where the value in a continuously growing economy is coming from....

How would you respond to such an approach, if you were an LBS prorietor? I'd welcome it. A valuable source of promotion, an opportunity to contribute to the benefit of cycling in general, and the chance to get more people in through the door - what's to lose? I was an LCC member last year. I let it...

tinkerbell7 wrote:And the cyclist lanes are CLEAN AND WELL KEPT

Which part of London is this? I must visit