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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Fascinating stats http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Fascinating stats en Sun, 31 May 2026 19:33:54 +0000 gembo on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56924 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:10:48 +0000 gembo 56924@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ In the great Italian movie Bicycle Thieves (dir. vittoria da sica) the hero is too poor to buy a bicycle after the original gets nicked. There was a small faction of the left linked to cycling. the clarion newspaper and cycling clubs spread the word Similar small groups of working class scots explored the country by hillwalking or cycling. There is a string on here about the man from auchinleck. Not a homogenous group but linked to Christian socialism and temperance (tho some were not total abstainers like dr daker in very peculiar practice crowriver on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56895 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:38:30 +0000 crowriver 56895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Did not H.G. Wells himself about the liberating effect of the bicycle on "the great clerk class"? So, specifically, the lower middle class were the majority of cyclists historically. Quick cycling and class breakdown: Upper class = early adopters, mostly abandoned for the new fangled motor car. Middle class, upper division = wanted to be upper class, see above. Middle class, middle division = suburbanites, took the train, many still do, some cyclists. Middle class, lower division = embraced the bicycle until it became 'normal' to drive. Lower/working class = omnibus/walkers/a few cyclists, aspired to drive like the upper classes. Cyclingmollie on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56894 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:22:20 +0000 Cyclingmollie 56894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ My parents bought me an old sit up and beg bike in the 70's to get to school. It still had a swing tag attached to the bars which boasted that the factory workers enjoyed one full week of paid holidays per year. SRD on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56892 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:17:41 +0000 SRD 56892@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I presume it should read: "More than a quarter of workers regularly cycled to work; The middle classes were more likely to cycle than the upper or lower classes;" (maybe?) custard on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56891 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:12:36 +0000 custard 56891@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ its funny,I wondered about class and cycling the other day you have those little offices down from The Bycicle Works now they have bike locking facilities outside and often commuter bikes locked up Im assumnig these businnesses are of 'the middle class' type Claggy Cog on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56890 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:51:29 +0000 Claggy Cog 56890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ The middle classes were more regularly cycled to work; What does this mean, by rickshaw, tandem, crossbar, backie? chdot on "Fascinating stats" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5317#post-56852 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:56:25 +0000 chdot 56852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Just bought a (newish) <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1892495686/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=cyclingedinbu-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1892495686">history of Raleigh</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=cyclingedinbu-21&l=as2&o=2&a=1892495686" alt="" /> . " AS WORLD War II drew to a close, Britain was still a country where millions of people used the bicycle as their everyday means of transport. A government survey showed that cycle usage varied depending on social class, sex, and location. However, the broad brush conclusions were: • About a quarter of Britons owned a bicycle; • About a quarter of urban dwellers used bicycles; • More than twice as many men cycled as women; • More than a third of people living in rural areas cycled; • More than a quarter of workers ? The middle classes were more regularly cycled to work; likely to cycle than the upper or lower classes; • A high proportion of white collar workers used bicycles; • Cycle use was greatest in the flatter parts of Britain - East Anglia, south-central England and the Midlands. "