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Is cycling really the new golf?
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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Sport
"Cycling waxes while golf wanes"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Surely the two sports can be combined now that a bicycle fit for Braids One's slopes and respectful of the putting surface is on the market?
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/CBOOFATX52/on-one-fatty-fat-bike
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Given that there are plans afoot to transform the former Lothianburn Golf Club/course into one of the county's premier cycling hubs, perhaps there is something in this...
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Oddly I was making a similar observation about middle class blokes with too much money spending three grand on a mountain bike to then drive to hills so they be pulled to then roll down again.
Trouble is, we were also pondering at work today forming the League Against Cool Sports.
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In New Zealand, with a lot of development of new leisure cycling trails, people in the tourist industry repeat the mantra "cycling is the new golf". I'm delighted that that's true. Trails are much less damaging to the environment than mono-culture courses and water-thirsty greens. Certainly a lot of people I met there had taken up leisure cycling.
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In a similar vein to the NZ approach, Duluth has developed a network of trails and seems to be reaping the benefits:
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In the firm where I work entertaining clients with a cycling event is more common than with a golf event. Also a lot of the charity events involve cycling.
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In NZ tourist destinations that were for ski-ing so dead in summer have now started doing cycle trails. And you can finish off your cycle with a soak in a hot spring. I stayed at Turangi, in the centre of the North Island, which is famous for trout fishing. The owner of the motel, who rented me out the cycling gear, said that fishing was dropping off these days and he was trying to push through a cycle trail near by. Fishing, like golf, is a sport popular among middle-aged blokes. It can also allow the latest, fanciest, most technically advanced gear.
I'm hopeful that NZers having embraced leisure cycling might get the idea that it isn't bad for commuting either, as Auckland is a fairly nasty place for cycling. NZ car drivers are notoriously aggressive & impatient.
Posted 9 years ago # -
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The Town Cycling Saved
Don Ness, the 40-year-old mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, used bike trails and green space to transform this Rust Belt city into one of the most desirable communities in America
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Lesson for Glasgow?
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But the mayor shuns the credit for the city’s transformation – which led to being named the Best Outdoors Town in America by Outside magazine readers – saying it is a result of the area’s natural beauty and the efforts of the community to embrace a new vision for its future.
“I don’t think we’d be seeing the same job growth and private investment in Duluth if we didn’t have world-class natural beauty and outdoor recreation opportunities,” he told Bicycling."
Lesson for Edinburgh?
Posted 9 years ago #
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