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  1. DaveC
    Member

    I received some posters today from Cycling Scotland. No email before hand explaining the ideas behind it. They are black and yellow with statements such as:

    I Love My Bike (discuss)
    I Hate My Bike (discuss)
    Treat Yourself ()
    Spare Some Change ()
    Late again (traffic jams don't exist for cyclists)
    Rush Hour Doesn't Exist ()
    You Look Great ()
    You Look Tired ()

    More here: https://www.facebook.com/lovehatemybike#!/media/set/?set=a.217253334985522.58124.191225997588256&type=3

    and for those who refrain from Farcebook:

    http://www.cyclingscotland.org/our-projects/award-schemes/cycle-friendly-employer/ and search for 'Love Hate My Bike resource kit'.

    I think the idea is that I post these posters up round my workplace and try to foster discussion, but I have 20+ posters and my office ain't that large!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. HankChief
    Member

    I got the same and am baffled by them. Working in a large office, even if I was allowed to put them up, I'm not sure what discussion they would provoke unless someone stood next to them.
    Maybe I'm being harsh or missing the point but it feels like it needs a bit more substance to me.

    Not sure this afternoon is the weather to get non-cyclists to consider getting on their bbikes.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    I received them too. I have had them before. The best one I'm too sexy for my car.

    The chapmwhomsent them - big matt is a good guy. The campaign is patchy. i kept the decent posters such as the ones with the bike wheel with heart shape in middle but chucked

    I hate my bike,give up coffee give me your brownie etc as they could wind people up

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. Instography
    Member

    Oh dearie me. Clueless.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    More an interesting idea that should have been knocked back before they went into production. The love my bike ones are fine. I cannot work out the hate my bike ones or why they should go up next to each other and how this would then encourage cycling?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Instography
    Member

    I've not seen the posters but the implication is that people do not cycle because they don't think right. They're the problem. What activists need is posters to stimulate discussion so they can fix people's views of cycling. It's the Jehovah's Witness approach to encouragement. If only we proselytised more.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Flawed no doubt at all

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Not sure what the point in them is, and the "print your own" idea for yellow on black and black on yellow is just daft and a waste of office toner supplies.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. sallyhinch
    Member

    Unfortunately if your brief is to promote cycling and you've no budget or power to do anything that will really make a difference, i.e. change the conditions on the roads, then this is all you can do.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. wingpig
    Member

    Just received a bunch of these at my work, which leaves me wondering how my name and my work address ended up on Cycling Scotland's spamlist. Is it from that Big Count thing? As experienced in the run-up to PoP there are strict controls on the putting up of posters at my workplace so I'll have loads spare if anyone's desperate for them...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. Instography
    Member

    @sally
    Yes, up to a point. Cycling Scotland can't build a segregated infrastructure but it needn't take 'promotion' so literally as to see the attitudes of non-cyclists as the problem and changing their beliefs as the solution. If that really is the limit of its powers then it might as well not bother since it doesn't work.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. Uberuce
    Member

    Just got my bundle out here Gylish. There's already plenty of bikey posters up around the place, so not sure where to squeeze them.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. alibali
    Member

    @wingpig Aha! The Big Count must be it. I didn't think I'd ever had any contact with Cycling Scotland but just received my posters today.

    Not at all sure what to do with them...might try puting a few inside the old Autocar and Top Gear magazines that lie around the food/meeting room or maybe under the wiper of the several cars that arive too late to get into the car park. Maybe not.

    Not much point in puting them up in the dark space under the stairs where the bikes go!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Conversley, I tried to sign our workplace up to Cycling Scotland about 6 months ago, but their website repeatedly failed and they didn't honour their promise to do it by my written request and we have recieved no piles of leaflets. Not sure we're missing out.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  15. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I received a bundle of the posters too. Not too worried about being on the Cycling Scotland distribution list because I've been quite involved with them for a long time, with several Cycle Friendly Employer Award inspections, with drop-in sessions for staff, with their ill-advised foray into forumship (remember that?), with the Big Count and so on.

    I'm not sure I'll put any of the I Hate My Bike ones up, except perhaps a laminated one for the cycle rack for us to scribble on. And for all the 'Rush hour doesn't exist on a bike' and 'Bikes don't queue', try a recumbent trike. :)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  16. steveo
    Member

    I must have missed the "please don't send me stuff" button when I did the count. We already have a very high modal share in my office and I'd preaching largely to the converted plus I don't like adding the to the mail rooms work for "personal" stuff.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  17. fimm
    Member

    I also got some posters, which will be filed into the recycling bin shortly. Just because I am willing to fill in a webform with the number of bikes in the rack does not mean that I want to become a cycle campaigner, thank you very much.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  18. Kirst
    Member

    I got so many today I am considering making a papiermache sail for my bike to blow me to work.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  19. gembo
    Member

    Paper too high quality for paper mâché. We have the one with the heart at the centre of the spokes up. It is a good "'un

    Posted 12 years ago #

  20. fimm
    Member

    And more unrequested mail from Cycling Scotland. Something called "Spin"... which is redemed by having a large picture of Pedal On Parliament on the front. Not sure I'm grabbed by the name, all the same. Too many negative political connotations!!

    I will locate an email address and send a frosty email requesting them to stop sending me stuff I didn't ask for.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  21. chdot
    Admin

    This campaign is still mentioned on the the CS website -

    http://www.cyclingscotland.org/our-projects/award-schemes/cycle-friendly-employer

    But the FB link doesn't work.

    Presumably no-one got any more posters?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  22. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I haven't seen any more black and yellow posters come the way of my desk, at least. Good heavens that was a strange initative.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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