http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The maddest cycling journalism yet? en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:40:53 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-188024 Sat, 09 May 2015 15:16:57 +0000 Min 188024@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>But if my husband referred to me as 'the' wife, he'd never hear the end of it. </em></p> <p>If mine ever blew £12k on something and hid it from me he'd never hear the end of it. He wouldn't though as he is not like Andrew Critchlow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187996 Sat, 09 May 2015 09:29:16 +0000 sallyhinch 187996@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the Telegraph's bike blog/column has always lived in the 'men' section; the Guardian's has moved from motoring to environment - people have a moan whichever one it's placed under, but that's Guardian commenters for you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187995 Sat, 09 May 2015 08:56:15 +0000 Arellcat 187995@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Cycling has never been more popular in the UK, with over 100,000 people now signed up as members of British Cycling and popular mass participation events such as Ride London oversubscribed.</em></p> <p>The events are no doubt oversubscribed, but I don't think that means that cycling has never been more popular in the UK. Oh for the days when everyone pedalled t'bakery for a loaf.</p> <p><em>Because only men buy expensive bikes.</em></p> <p>Critchlow does have precedent, after all when he says in his article <em>"When I raced for Great Britain in the early 90s…"</em> he's not lying, though he was racing for the GB Junior Squad when he was 17, 18 years old. After that he became a soldier, then a journalist.</p> <p>And since his article is based on his personal perspective of 'pro' cycing and impecunity, and his embarassingly awkward dig at women, the newspaper has seen fit to slot it into the Men column.</p> <p>In the newspaper look how Men gives 'Thinking Man', 'Active', Fashion and Style', 'Relationships', etc., while Women gives 'Politics', 'Work', 'Family', 'Sex', 'Life', 'Health', etc., and poor old Helen Skelton has to have her article about tougher women slotted into the 'Life' column.</p> <p>I suspect Critchlow is just being blokey bloke, bikes, money, cars. But if my husband referred to me as 'the' wife, he'd never hear the end of it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187992 Sat, 09 May 2015 00:29:47 +0000 unhurt 187992@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also annoying is this: "if you work hard and earn your money, then I can think of nothing better than blowing it all on the latest piece of cycling hardware. Just don’t tell the wife!"</p> <p>Yes. Because only men buy expensive bikes. And... oh, it's not worth caring, but it's such amazingly lazy 'journalism' (and terrible writing to boot). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187990 Sat, 09 May 2015 00:20:57 +0000 I were right about that saddle 187990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@edd1e_h</p> <p>All of the money in your pockets and bank accounts (well, 98% of it) is <a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q1prereleasemoneycreation.pdf">created through commercial loans</a>. If everyone repaid their loans that 98% of all money would be annihilated and exchange of any commodity would become difficult. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187954 Fri, 08 May 2015 11:50:22 +0000 neddie 187954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Obvious solution is to ban personal loans. (Or would that be 'bad' for the economy as well, as bankers wouldn't be able to cream interest off working people?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187953 Fri, 08 May 2015 11:43:41 +0000 mgj 187953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly true as far as my brother is concerned (he sells hand built Italian road bikes in California, where they are status symbols for those that used to buy Porsches) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187944 Fri, 08 May 2015 10:57:06 +0000 dougal 187944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"to purchase either a bicycle or a car"</p> <p>Aye, but the important detail is <em>which?</em> I'm betting the number of 15-grand bikes sold on the high street in a given year is vanishingly small. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187890 Thu, 07 May 2015 20:22:09 +0000 chdot 187890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Er</p> <p>"</p> <p>Of 3,000 people polled, one in five were found to have a person loan. A quarter of the loans had been taken out to purchase either a bicycle or a car.</p> <p>"</p> <p>So that's 95% car loans then?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187889 Thu, 07 May 2015 20:21:41 +0000 gembo 187889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very stupid article. Very beige comments (one sarky one that I liked that managed to mention how even handed the torygraph election coverage has been) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187887 Thu, 07 May 2015 20:13:03 +0000 I were right about that saddle 187887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@sallyhinch</p> <p>I sometimes stalk the comment threads on Scottish articles to see what the wilder shores of unionism throw up. It's an eye-opener, certainly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187886 Thu, 07 May 2015 20:08:37 +0000 sallyhinch 187886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>An interesting glimpse into the mind of Telegraph man (I used to buy the weekly Telegraph when we were living in Africa because it beat waiting 3 weeks for the Weekly Guardian to arrive by post and I quite like the Matt cartoon but while I enjoyed being defeated by the crossword, I found myself becoming considerably more rightwing and ended up giving it up for the preservation of my sanity and self image) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14780#post-187885 Thu, 07 May 2015 20:00:35 +0000 I were right about that saddle 187885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I <em>know</em> I shouldn't read the Telegraph, but it helps to know what the other lot are thinking. But even I was taken aback by <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/11586306/Is-cycling-putting-the-economic-recovery-at-risk.html">this.</a> </p>