Virtually every story about cycling these days seems to include something about 'wear a helmet' or 'don't run red lights'. No matter what the story is about.
Searching our intranet again for cycling related stuff there was an article about someone who did a charity ride to Africa. Quite a long piece all about the journey, the difficulties, the high points, the charity they were raising money for etc etc etc.
And then the last two short paragraphs completely and utterly out of the blue and apart from everything said up to that point:
"If I had to give you some advice about cycling it would be this stick with it and to take your bike places to experience different riding conditions. The reason I say that is, it’s not as easy to cycle as it was when you were 10! If you haven’t cycled for a while, it will hurt when you start to cycle. Don’t give up, as it does stop hurting eventually! If you are getting back into cycling, don’t do it more than once or twice a week, but after a while you will be able to keep going without any problem.
My other final piece of advice is SAFETY this has to be your number one priority. I see far too many cyclists being silly at traffic lights and zig-zagging between traffic. Stay back and stay safe."
I've seen it in papers as well - a totally positive piece about cycling whcih will have something added at the very end about the numbers of cyclists killed. I remember a couple of years back a kid who was very sadly hit by a car and killed, suffering huge internal injuries, his distraught mother appearing in the paper asking that all cyclists make sure they wear helmets. Her son had not damaged his head at all, and the driver (I think) had been speeding... But no, all cyclists wear helmets. Argh!
(matching Stepdoh for curmudgeonliness today...)
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