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Posted 14 years ago #
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It is real..?
We all know what you are capable of graphically ;-)
Of course I'm worried this kind of treatment does nothing to get families doing the school run by bike...
Luckily though the Indy is in a bit of a niche
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Well it were on twitter and "it wisnae me" if it is a photochop!
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Story is carried elsewhere now.bike biz piece
Posted 14 years ago # -
"and dozens killed - many needlessly"
Ummm... so which cyclists needed to be killed?
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"David Prosser: It's time for a truce before more cyclists' lives are "
Posted 14 years ago # -
I think I like the Indy comments system more than CiF; replyability helps keep it together. Apart from the usual cliché-versus-sigh-versus-cliché banter there are a few good comments. The longer ones are much easier to read than in the squidged Guardian format, too.
It's a pity the few mentions of things along the lines of "cyclists (and pedestrians (human and equine)) have a basic right to use the public highway whereas motorists and their heavy, damaging vehicles have to apply and demonstrate competency for a license of special permission to drive their heavy, damaging vehicle amongst the biologically-powered road users" are confined to the comments rather than plastered in large type at the top of the front page where they would be more noticed by those whose ingrained opinions might benefit from such a noticing, though the phrasing would have to be very precise to indubitably convey the "motor vehicles are the recent interlopers, NOT the entity for which roads were invented" concept.
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Ooh, does look interesting!
wee folding bike - I'm glad someone else picked up on that 'needlessly', that jumped out at me too!Posted 14 years ago # -
If cycling ever goes mainstream it's not going to be on our terms. It will be taken over by the control-freaks, big businesses and fashionistas. They'll create a hegemony which will make our concept of cycling look like a golden age. Think Center Parcs style segregation. I really think that with mass cycling there would come a whole raft of prohibitions on riding without a helmet, insurance, tax or a licence. Everything that goes from minority to mainstream goes through this transformation because of the money and power that attaches to something which is popular.
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