Bikes in commercials pt2

[mickle]

Did anyone catch the new Shitroen advert last night? I can't find it on Utube.

The story appears to be that the new Shitroen 'C-number' is so attractive that as it drives around an anonymous European city it attracts more and more cyclists - so mesmerised by it's beauty that they cannot help but follow it. Pied piper like. The crowd of idiot cyclists grows from just one or two to several hundred and the driver is forced to take evasive action.

Makes me want to find one and throw a bike through the windscreen.

 

[bikepete]

This must be the one (in German, but you're not missing much with the words...):


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKIt1St3D3Q

 

[summerdays]

Try seeing the alternative story ... its saying cycling is as fast as being in a car and that we obey lights ... and that we are growing in numbers? (oh and that they put some car in the ad at the same time...?)

 

[mickle]

This must be the one (in German, but you're not missing much with the words...):

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=OKIt1St3D3Q

That's the very one. And it's a hybrid - that must be why the cyclists love it so much eh?

 

[Globalti]

Not a single helmet amongst them; is that normal in Germany?

 

[bikepete]

Not a single helmet amongst them; is that normal in Germany?

Filmed in Copenhagen according to one of the comments...

 

[snorri]

Not a single helmet amongst them; is that normal in Germany?

Helmet wearing, counted in various places in Germany last summer was less than 10%, much higher than the neigbours in The Netherlands but less than the UK.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

On the other hand, would you say the greatest joy of being on the road was represented by the many smiling, unconventional, happy-to-be-themselves cyclists or the smug man in a box who has to look behind to reassure himself that he's the leader of the pack? He's the kind of driver - though he could just as easily be in a black Audi or VW Golf - that I tend to stay behind at lights because they're usually so unconnected to the road that they wouldn't know if there were a breeze or not. Or whether there were a cyclist alongside or not. Or in front....

Anyhow, does that useless driver do a right turn at the first lights without checking where the cyclist on the cyclepath alongside is and then red light jump the second set - after all, how comes all the cyclists have to wait while the car goes? C4s are definitely going on my blacklist.

 

[Jezston]

I believe the notion is that the cars emissions are so low cyclists would prefer to be behind that car than any other?

 

[mickle]

I believe the notion is that the cars emissions are so low cyclists would prefer to be behind that car than any other?

Right. Thanks.

Why I couldn't have worked that out for myself I don't know

 

[snorri]

The message one could read... "Don't be a selfish prat who disrupts the traffic, get yourself a bike and go with the flow"

 

[Jezston]

Right. Thanks.

Why I couldn't have worked that out for myself I don't know

 

[mickle]

I see your cotton shopping bag (which isn't really a handbag) and raise you this:

Which is a clutch.

 

[Jezston]

How is one of those a raise?

Pathetic looking little things. Like bringing a knife to a gunfight.

 

[mickle]

The black crock skin one with the gold lame straps positively fu**ing batters your soppy shopper.