SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
. It doesn't look attractive to the casual commuter, far too much cost and effort, I love seeing normal people riding normal bikes in normal clothes, and if they are on the larger side even better, the more people like this around the more normalised cycling will become, I think this is key to getting people on bikes, as important if not more so than super duper infrastructure.
I also deliberately ride in casual wear, and I do not wish to look like a typical weekend warrior roadie (although I suspect riding a 25-30 year old steel flat bar bike would make that image difficult to pull off anyway).
Best of luck trying to persuade more people to take up riding though. I've come to the conclusion that a significant portion of the UK population are essentially just fat lazy b'stards whose idea of success in life is to avoid as much physical activity as humanly possible. I mean, when you've got people who live half a mile away from the pub and yet use minicabs to get there and back, or wait longer for a bus to take them 3 stops down the road to get their Chinese take-away than it would take them to walk, things are not really looking too promising are they?
I also can't believe how many adult youngsters these days don't have bikes, and some don't ever seem to have ridden bikes. When I was small, every kid of both sexes, without exception, could ride a bike from a young age and possessed a bike of some description - even if it was some beaten-up old secondhand heap with umpteen previous careless owners.