Are cyclists more left wing?

[oldworld]

If I judge by posts on here I'd say yes, slightly left of centre.
On another site I look at, car restoration, I'd say they were more right of centre.
To me it matters not a jot unless it's an extremist posting.
Just wondering what others think and has cycling anything to do with it?

 

[Drago]

Check out my avatar, then lock the thread

 

[tyred]

I have arms. If I had wings I'd be bird and wouldn't need a bicycle to get around.

 

[Fab Foodie]

If I judge by posts on here I'd say yes, slightly left of centre.
On another site I look at, car restoration, I'd say they were more right of centre.
To me it matters not a jot unless it's an extremist posting.
Just wondering what others think and has cycling anything to do with it?

I’d wager that cyclists are more left wing than car enthusiasts....

 

[Dayvo]

If being left wing means people believe in equality and equal rights, looking after the weak, sick, old and vulnerable, accepting people of other faiths, colour, creeds, sexual orientation, investing in state-run/owned industries and services etc. then yes, cyclists are probably more left wing than others, although I'd guess there's a 70% - 30% left - right mix here on CC.

 

[Drago]

I’d wager that cyclists are more left wing than car enthusiasts....

Because in order to buy a car you need money, and that makes you a capitalist.

 

[Poacher]

Because in order to buy a car you need money, and that makes you a capitalist.

Not a particularly successful one if you take depreciation into account!

 

[Drago]

Being serious for a moment, which is very difficult for me, I do not view myself as either left or right. I do not susbcribe to party politics, or societally conditioned notions of what is left or right.

No, I have my own views on each topic of interest, and they are not mutually dependent upon one another to conform to some notional political structure. On the one hand I may be all for save the orphans, but on the other might be supportive of nuking the whales, and where that sits on someones neat and tidy scale of bullsheet political observance is neither here nor there to me.

 

[accountantpete]

Cycling is all about Momentum.

 

[newfhouse]

might be supportive of nuking the whales

I don't think that made it in to anyone's manifesto except Widdicombe's.

 

[Ian H]

Judging by the weirdly hostile responses to Cycling UK's support for Black Lives Matter, I wonder.

 

[raleighnut]

I wouldn't say so, just take a look at the 'brexit' threads or the 'anti Corbyn' one.

 

[Cycleops]

Not a particularly successful one if you take depreciation into account!

But look what you get if you go too far to the left, a Trabant.

 

[Cycleops]

The most far left party leader in history rides a bicycle, that should tell you all you need to know.

 

[Drago]

Kim Jong Un rides a bike? Presumably a fat bike.