I know I shouldn't read the Telegraph, but it helps to know what the other lot are thinking. But even I was taken aback by this.
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The maddest cycling journalism yet?
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Posted 10 years ago #
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An interesting glimpse into the mind of Telegraph man (I used to buy the weekly Telegraph when we were living in Africa because it beat waiting 3 weeks for the Weekly Guardian to arrive by post and I quite like the Matt cartoon but while I enjoyed being defeated by the crossword, I found myself becoming considerably more rightwing and ended up giving it up for the preservation of my sanity and self image)
Posted 10 years ago # -
@sallyhinch
I sometimes stalk the comment threads on Scottish articles to see what the wilder shores of unionism throw up. It's an eye-opener, certainly.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Very stupid article. Very beige comments (one sarky one that I liked that managed to mention how even handed the torygraph election coverage has been)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Er
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Of 3,000 people polled, one in five were found to have a person loan. A quarter of the loans had been taken out to purchase either a bicycle or a car.
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So that's 95% car loans then??
Posted 10 years ago # -
"to purchase either a bicycle or a car"
Aye, but the important detail is which? I'm betting the number of 15-grand bikes sold on the high street in a given year is vanishingly small.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Sadly true as far as my brother is concerned (he sells hand built Italian road bikes in California, where they are status symbols for those that used to buy Porsches)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Obvious solution is to ban personal loans. (Or would that be 'bad' for the economy as well, as bankers wouldn't be able to cream interest off working people?)
Posted 10 years ago # -
@edd1e_h
All of the money in your pockets and bank accounts (well, 98% of it) is created through commercial loans. If everyone repaid their loans that 98% of all money would be annihilated and exchange of any commodity would become difficult.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Also annoying is this: "if you work hard and earn your money, then I can think of nothing better than blowing it all on the latest piece of cycling hardware. Just don’t tell the wife!"
Yes. Because only men buy expensive bikes. And... oh, it's not worth caring, but it's such amazingly lazy 'journalism' (and terrible writing to boot).
Posted 10 years ago # -
Cycling has never been more popular in the UK, with over 100,000 people now signed up as members of British Cycling and popular mass participation events such as Ride London oversubscribed.
The events are no doubt oversubscribed, but I don't think that means that cycling has never been more popular in the UK. Oh for the days when everyone pedalled t'bakery for a loaf.
Because only men buy expensive bikes.
Critchlow does have precedent, after all when he says in his article "When I raced for Great Britain in the early 90s…" he's not lying, though he was racing for the GB Junior Squad when he was 17, 18 years old. After that he became a soldier, then a journalist.
And since his article is based on his personal perspective of 'pro' cycing and impecunity, and his embarassingly awkward dig at women, the newspaper has seen fit to slot it into the Men column.
In the newspaper look how Men gives 'Thinking Man', 'Active', Fashion and Style', 'Relationships', etc., while Women gives 'Politics', 'Work', 'Family', 'Sex', 'Life', 'Health', etc., and poor old Helen Skelton has to have her article about tougher women slotted into the 'Life' column.
I suspect Critchlow is just being blokey bloke, bikes, money, cars. But if my husband referred to me as 'the' wife, he'd never hear the end of it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I think the Telegraph's bike blog/column has always lived in the 'men' section; the Guardian's has moved from motoring to environment - people have a moan whichever one it's placed under, but that's Guardian commenters for you.
Posted 10 years ago # -
But if my husband referred to me as 'the' wife, he'd never hear the end of it.
If mine ever blew £12k on something and hid it from me he'd never hear the end of it. He wouldn't though as he is not like Andrew Critchlow.
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