Hilldodger said:
I run an organisation that promotes cycling across the UK.
You'd be suprised how many times we hear that cyclists are considered smug.
And the way you have written on this thread comes across to me as being so, too.
Sorry, but that's how I see it in my line of work and no one is more in to cycling than me..
"You'd be suprised how many times we hear that cyclists are considered smug."
OK you're being told this, but what evidence have they offered suggesting this is more than anecdotal?? I would ask them to define 'smug', or demonstrate how the cyclists they met expressed their 'smugness'. Surely that's a bit subjective, when compared to objective judgements based on fact such as 'I notice a lot of cyclists jump red lights, cycle on pavements..' etc??
The sort of cyclists I mix with view cycling in terms of convenience and health and cost benefits, not that they somehow personally are going to hault global warming.
Forgive me, but couldn't a statement such as 'no one is more in to cycling than me; be as interpreted as a little 'smug' in itself??