http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: See other threads en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:03:18 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1058 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:51:01 +0000 gembo 1058@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not quite irrational fear as I have a friend who is recovering from broken neck and back whom the medics said would be dead if he hadn't had the helmet on. When we got to the scene he was lying on the road (he had been up ahead) helmet halved in two. I'd say more rational fear. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1055 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:47:45 +0000 Kim 1055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anything that suggest that cycling is a <em>normal</em> activity has to be good. It is in other European countries, so why not here? No need for special clothing or protective head gear, just the way it used to be before Bell Sport decided there was <em>a lot</em> of money to be make out irrational fear. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1050 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:19:29 +0000 gembo 1050@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>interesting point, Danny loves his job and any time I have ever seen him he is smiling. I cannot imagine this is typical of jobs on that website, maybe I am wrong. I do like to see a young person wearing a helmet though.</p> <p>There was a miller lite ad set in san francisco where the guy [sans helmet] cycles downhill to the store for some Miller Lite [I don't drink the stuff but the advert has worked to an extent] then he cycles downhill home. Clever and with some added meaning for the cyclists watching?</p> <p>Under late capitalism, we are all just props for some advert or other. I was sledging today down a steep but closed to traffic road with my eldest daughter and since yesterday someone had built a BMX type jump out of ice on the road, we were flying. Most fun we've had in ages. Tomorrow it will be an advert. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1046 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:51:46 +0000 chdot 1046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Incidentally what to do 'we' think about the amount of 'cyclists as props' in adverts - apart from the fact that people in advertising agencies often ride bikes. </p> <p>Perhaps more interesting is the fact that someone with a wholly unique job is used to advertise a site that will have more mundane employment opportunities? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1045 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:46:53 +0000 chdot 1045@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Photoshop... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1044 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:45:58 +0000 gembo 1044@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There are some tiny people going down middle meadow walk these days, unless Danny Mc has pulled off a huge jump, or maybe it is just a perspective thing? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=162#post-1038 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:29:11 +0000 chdot 1038@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For those who don't know where MMW is (or that that means Middle Meadow Walk) it's here. </p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=157#post-968">The café mentioned in the café thread</a> is under the front wheel.</p> <p> <a href="http://cyclingedinburgh.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/p_1901_1114_3a82e5f4-35e9-43d5-8d08-8b355c033b6d.jpeg"><br /> <img src="http://cyclingedinburgh.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/p_1901_1114_3a82e5f4-35e9-43d5-8d08-8b355c033b6d.jpeg"><br /> </a> </p>