CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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I chose the title because I’m recalling a Bicycling Magazine opinion piece which my friend, long time Philadelphia bicycling advocate John Dowlin, wrote some thirty years ago. The title was “Cyclists as Urban Deer”.
Dowlin’s premise was that cyclists in urban areas, like deer in rural areas, are vulnerable, and deserve special attention and caution. He went on to make the point that the presence of cyclists is a measure of the health of the urban transportation system.
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Not sure it's a great metaphor. If we reflected the typical view of deer in Scotland...
"Cyclists are urban deer because they are pests who destroy the environment. There are too many of them, and they keep leaping in front of motor vehicles without warning and getting themselves killed. This causes distress for motorists and damage to their vehicles. They only exist in such numbers because rich people like to kill them for sport."
[...] and we need to organise a regular cull to keep their numbers down, which makes eating them ethically and environmentally sound.
...and restrict them to parks where we can watch them going round aimlessly for our amusement.
and we can hang their heads over the doorway as trophies
and let our dogs chase them whilst we shout ineffectually.
and we can hang their heads over the doorway as trophies
Heads in helmets mounted on handlebars. Can see it catching on..
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