http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Cycling remains massively marginal as a mode of everyday urban mobility" en Sun, 31 May 2026 20:16:45 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5759#post-61895 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:52:46 +0000 Smudge 61895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Possibly a combination of that and surplus/unwanted bicycles becoming available cheaply secondhand as the wealthier moved onto cars? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5759#post-61894 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:45:15 +0000 Instography 61894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a good blog but this sentence jars, "Bicycles only became accessible to those less affluent when the rich jumped from them, into cars." I suppose because it implies a causal link that doesn't seem logical. More likely, the development of industrial production lowered the cost of both cars and bikes to a point where they became affordable: cars to the rich and bicycles to the less affluent. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5759#post-61893 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:41:41 +0000 unclejoe 61893@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"cycling has new kudos. Cycling is becoming ‘cool’ and experiencing a ‘renaissance’, particularly amongst affluent, white, middle-class, inner-urban professionals." (<a href="http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/towards-a-bicycle-system/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/towards-a-bicycle-system/</a>)</p> <p>That's all right then- they are the very people to win over the hearts &amp; minds of every car commuter, white van man &amp; bus driver streaming in to town from the non-inner-urban bits of the benighted hinterland. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5759#post-61889 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:23:16 +0000 chdot 61889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Cycling remains massively marginal as a mode of everyday urban mobility across the globe</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/towards-a-bicycle-system/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/towards-a-bicycle-system/</a> </p>