http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: MPs have £5,500 virtual cycling machine en Sun, 17 May 2026 17:36:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=323#post-2587 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:01:35 +0000 spytfyre 2587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>agreed - a mountain is good for climbing (if you don't have vertigo, like me)<br /> getting from A to B is my style a bike is simply a better more of tranpost than bus, car or shank's pony </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=323#post-2477 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:34:15 +0000 gembo 2477@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>not that I would agree with anything George Young says but he might have something about bikes and mountains? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=323#post-2471 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:06 +0000 chdot 2471@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Tories have form...</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soggy-semolina/3319862830"><br /> "The late Quintin Hogg (Lord Hailsham) locks his Moulton bicycle outside a polling station during the 1966 General Election.</p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3653/3319862830_5b1a1dfdd9.jpg"></a></p> <p>"Now 69, Sir George Young was cycling to work while David Cameron was still at primary school. He is one of the few members of the Tory frontbench who has been in Government before, serving both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. “When I was a minister I used to put the red box on the back of my bike,” he says"</p> <p>"For him, life should be conducted at a sedate pace — he has Radio 3 on, permanently, in his Parliamentary office. Although he has 11 bicycles, including three tandems, he would never buy a mountain bike because “I don’t bicycle up mountains”."</p> <p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7016885.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7016885.ece</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=323#post-2470 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:23:22 +0000 wee folding bike 2470@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does "CallMeDave" have a virtual car following him?</p> <p>George Young rides a real bike.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Young,_6th_Baronet">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Young,_6th_Baronet</a></p> <p>As does the Dark Lord.</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6151964/Peter-Mandelson-pledges-to-get-on-his-bike.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6151964/Peter-Mandelson-pledges-to-get-on-his-bike.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=323#post-2451 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:35:27 +0000 Kim 2451@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shame they never think to get out into the real world, we might get better transport policy if they rode in the real world. Then again, thinking of some of the policies Johnson has come up, with maybe not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=323#post-2446 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:22:42 +0000 chdot 2446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bikebiz.com/news/31756/MPs-cycling-to-the-moon" rel="nofollow">http://www.bikebiz.com/news/31756/MPs-cycling-to-the-moon</a> </p>