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Guardian Witness: show us your bike

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  1. SRD
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    https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5237ef4be4b0bdcddbf1fcf2

    It seems that more bicycles were sold than cars in Spain last year – just one sign of Europe's wider economic malaise. Wherever you live in Europe, if you've bought a new bicycle in the last year – or you've given up your car in favour of cycling or walking – we'd like to hear from you. To take part, please show us a picture of your bike via GuardianWitness and tell us why you bought it and how your life has changed as a result. We'll feature some of your stories on the Guardian business live blog.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. amir
    Member

    "just one sign of Europe's wider economic malaise"

    ?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. amir
    Member

    Incidentally, this isn't going to happen soon here - car sales are a million or two per year whereas cycle sales are 3 or 4 thousand.

    There are interesting figures up to 2011 on the CTC site (http://www.ctc.org.uk/resources/ctc-cycling-statistics). There was a big jump in numbers after 2002 but the increase in value seems to largely down to more expensive cycles being bought (CTC says inflation).

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. gibbo
    Member

    Incidentally, this isn't going to happen soon here - car sales are a million or two per year whereas cycle sales are 3 or 4 thousand.

    The Guardian has a chart showing bike sales outstrip car sales in the UK:

    http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/sep/17/recession-transport-bike-sales-overtake-cars

    PS Funny how the countries where cars outsold bikes in 2011 were Spain, Italy, and Belgium.

    No wonder these countries never produce any grand tour or classics winners. (Joke.)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. amir
    Member

    Oh dear - I made two mistakes - sorry. The cycle stats missed a factor of 1000 - didn't read the graph legend. So the Guardian chart is consistent. Plus the CTC link above doesn't work (mysteries of internet - it seems to be dynamic in some way).

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. gibbo
    Member

    Amir, the problem with the ctc link is that it includes ")" at the end of the url.

    I was able to see the page by removing this.

    Here's the link that should work:

    http://www.ctc.org.uk/resources/ctc-cycling-statistics

    Posted 11 years ago #

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