Staff woes

[David Cropper]

18 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

I fail to see how people can conclude that cycling on roads is good for your health.
Forcing yourself to breathe deeply whilst travelling through a fog of diesel fumes, splashing through pools of filthy runoff water and roadside waste, inches from fast moving vehicles, many of whom have legitimate reason to be on the roads, it's not like they're out there as a hobby to piss off the mamils (middle aged men in lycra) all the while putting up to 50% of your body weight on yer gooch. I think time will tell regarding the health "benefits" of roadside cycling.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against cycling as such, to work, school, mountainbiking, or even as anyone's sole mode of transport. In fact, those who ditch the automobile for the bicycle as their daily mode of transport should rightly be applauded.
What does irk me is the brigade of fly swallowing morons who drive to a carpark with their bikes on show on some daft rack behind their executive cockwomblemobile, which adds to the pollution they are about to head off into, usually taking up the whole lane at half the speed of the traffic flow. Paying no road tax yet adversely affecting more road users than any other.
I rarely meet cyclists on the scenic, undulating, quiet side roads yet find myself stuck behind hoards of sweaty men gleefully riding 5 or 6 abreast, strung out on the main thoroughfares. I fail to see the sense in it.

Try living here mate. Great packs of the buggers riding three abreast, especially on a Wednesdays. Christ knows why.

[benedmonds]

2 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

I fail to see how people can conclude that cycling on roads is good for your health.
 

There is a credible argument that encouraging bike use to Dutch or Danish levels could do more than perhaps any other single intervention to save the NHS from collapse. It could even greatly mitigate the crisis in adult social care.

 

The 'miracle pill': how cycling could save the NHS | Environment | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Cycling can make people healthy and live longer, and cut public health costs, so why can’t it be prescribed to the nation?

 

[benedmonds]

2 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

 Paying no road tax...

99% of Mamils will own cars so all pay road tax, unless they have exempt vehicles obviously..

[Khriss]

5 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I’m just back from Morrisons (obviously it was just a quick beer & porn top up, not groceries since that’d be woman’s work) and I saw this pair. 

 

Now im no expert in the aerodynamic advantages of Lycra for the modern cyclist, but surely the shopping dangling from the drop handlebars will negate any advantage that might come from a spray on suit?

 

And then there is the issue of balance and stability....

 

I’d have more respect for them if they just turned out starkers rather than ‘pretending’ to cover up with a lick of Lycra.....

 

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Kev ! Bit judgemental n basically they are shopping but now famous ( on Arbtalk I know ...) its a life choice n harsh pics but one day you will be like them ........sorry mate K

[eggsarascal]

Followed some of them today through the lanes, sweated it out and didn't try to overtake them due to Ben's posts, but they are a nussiance,.15-20 miles n hour for 2 miles!

[Conor Wright]

6 hours ago, benedmonds said:

There is a credible argument that encouraging bike use to Dutch or Danish levels could do more than perhaps any other single intervention to save the NHS from collapse. It could even greatly mitigate the crisis in adult social care.

 

The 'miracle pill': how cycling could save the NHS | Environment | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Cycling can make people healthy and live longer, and cut public health costs, so why can’t it be prescribed to the nation?

 

Had you understood my post correctly, which clearly you have chosen not to do, you would see that I am not anti bicycle, in a pedestrianised zone, car free city centre etc it makes great sense. On busy roads it does not. It's that simple. As a means of clean transport in densely populated areas it is ideal, as a means of intensive exercise in heavily polluted areas its downright stupid. 

[Conor Wright]

6 hours ago, benedmonds said:

99% of Mamils will own cars so all pay road tax, unless they have exempt vehicles obviously..

I use a car, jeep, tractors and pay tax on every one of them seperately. Why should competitive/hazardous bike users be exempt? because they use man power not fossil fuel? Doesn't cut it for me, how often do you see the fuzz out on traffic management for these events, roads blocked or severely disrupted, peoples.travel times increased, truck drivers put under more pressure etc.. considering the levels of road disruption (completely unnecessary by the way, there is no need for these people to use the main roads for.this purpose, it's a choice they've taken upon themselves, thinking they are being healthy) a level of road taxation for those groups that decide to act collectively as a slow moving vehicle should be taxed as such.

I do have a bike, but not a road racer.. I find a pedal through a forestry track far safer and more energizing than being an obstruction to others and endangering myself whilst sucking in diesel particles. Each to their own i guess.

[struie]

11 hours ago, David Cropper said:

Try living here mate. Great packs of the buggers riding three abreast, especially on a Wednesdays. Christ knows why.

try living in the scottish borders,they have just taken over.

[Stubby]

I seem to remember being shot down for starting a similar thread last year where we could not leave our village all day coz of push bikes .

[huskykev]

Living in scenic west cork for the last 3 years, seems to draw arseholes on bikes like flies to shite... so I put a 12v air horn on the Landcruiser last summer. I doesn’t make them move over but it’s fun watching them wobble in panic after a quick blast....