http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cycling is good for you… and other peddled lies en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:27:30 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-109034 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:03:41 +0000 SRD 109034@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>we must be being spoiled. we didn't even comment on helen pidd reviewing a bike in saturday guardian magazine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-109010 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:25:31 +0000 Greenroofer 109010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One comment said "It's only plausible as parody".</p> <p>I have to agree. <strong>Surely</strong> the author of the article doesn't actually think this? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-109006 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:23:21 +0000 Rosie 109006@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This article reads like "controversial" clickbait. It's getting a total slagging in the comments. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108992 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:51:58 +0000 Nelly 108992@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He is getting it tight on twitter - which sadly he rarely reads! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108991 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:51:33 +0000 PS 108991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Kevin, can you give us 500 words by 6pm? Clarkson-style today, mate. Need to mix things up a bit to get a few more hits on the website."</p> <p>"Sure. No problemo." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108990 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:47:38 +0000 MeepMeep 108990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd congratulate him on a job well done in trotting out every anti-cycling line in the book... Except he missed the 'road tax' argument. Go to bottom of the ranting journo class, Kevin. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108987 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:40:52 +0000 Calum 108987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why is my beloved Guardian running this nonsense? Time to abandon newspapers - I hate them all now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108983 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:24:48 +0000 gembo 108983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the article is meant to be satirical? He admits to a pedal himself. He wants bikes out of the city and when they are on country roads he doesn't want segregated lanes. So he is presumably a diehard driver.</p> <p>Unfortunately, his ranting tone hides a serious point. We all see the benefits to health of cycling. But the underclass do not. Therefore how can we address The cost to the nation of obesity, lack of vegetable eating (except pots) drinking buckfast, lanliq, four crown, eldorado and other British sherries/ tonics whilst paying ten pounds for twenty tabs!!!!???</p> <p>Orwell proposed raw vegetables, brown bread and temperance. That won't work. methadone, Ribena and Totov Vodka much more anaesthetising </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108981 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:09:35 +0000 wee folding bike 108981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was recently surprised to find that opera is much cheaper than football.</p> <p>Cheap seats in the Theatre Royal are £9. Even Thistle costs more than that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108980 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:02:36 +0000 Morningsider 108980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It is kind of hard to respond to something so incoherent. I assume this article was written after some city based "drinking seriously", possibly while discussing the good old days when you were allowed to chant foul mouthed bigotry at football matches. </p> <p>Interesting that he considers jogging, cycling and healthy eating to be unreachable middle class fripperies for real Scots - but car ownership and attending football matches are not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108975 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:37:28 +0000 Nelly 108975@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He is executive editor of the Daily Mail.</p> <p>Ergo an idiot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10049#post-108974 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:14:07 +0000 cb 108974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/28/stop-pampering-scottish-cyclists">http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/28/stop-pampering-scottish-cyclists</a></p> <p>Dim-witted article by Kevin McKenna. The usual stuff, ticks just about all the boxes I think. </p>