sales up!
- Thread starter wafflycat
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Sittingduck
Legendary Member
- Location
- Somewhere flat
I have really noticed more people commuting in the past week alone. Thought I was just imagining things but maybe not...
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wafflycat
New Member
- Location
- middle of Norfolk
User3143 said:
The lemon-sucking contest is thataway -------->
purplepolly
New Member
- Location
- my house
User3143 said:
I'm surprised you didn't say "Great, more people that can't ride a bike take to the pavements of Great Britain"
thomas
the tank engine
- Location
- Woking/Norwich
User3143 said:
I'd rather someone couldn't ride a bike, than couldn't drive a car.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Well I've certainly noticed the effect with one of my neighbours becoming a commuting cyclist with a nice shiny bike - he has even commuted in the rain when I was sure he would take the car.
A friend who has been a die hard "bikes are only there to get me to work so that's why I buy a £20 bike and run it into the ground", bought a £1000 bike with his work voucher and now loves it. He didn't understand why I used my bike for anything other than commuting and now he is adding bits onto his journey, taking the kids out and buying further new nice bikes for the rest of the family. Keeps asking me questions ... only the other day he was saying how he would get the bike shop to clean and lubricate his chain each time they serviced it. He was rather shocked to discover that it needed it more than that. But the transformation just makes me smile.
. A friend who has been a die hard "bikes are only there to get me to work so that's why I buy a £20 bike and run it into the ground", bought a £1000 bike with his work voucher and now loves it. He didn't understand why I used my bike for anything other than commuting and now he is adding bits onto his journey, taking the kids out and buying further new nice bikes for the rest of the family. Keeps asking me questions ... only the other day he was saying how he would get the bike shop to clean and lubricate his chain each time they serviced it. He was rather shocked to discover that it needed it more than that. But the transformation just makes me smile
.simon_brooke
New Member
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- Auchencairn
thomas said:
+10!
Come on, guys, don't whinge. The people who can't ride can learn, and the more drivers are used to having cyclists on the streets the safer all of us are.
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
Kind of agree with Lee, actually, though maybe for a different reason. I just prefer the roads not to be cluttered up with other cyclists! 
And also - sales up is one thing: prices up is another. In cycling it seems to be "make something popular and watch those prices soar!" and just adding the word "cycling" to a product seems to add pounds to its cost.
And also - sales up is one thing: prices up is another. In cycling it seems to be "make something popular and watch those prices soar!" and just adding the word "cycling" to a product seems to add pounds to its cost.
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
summerdays said:Keeps asking me questions ... only the other day he was saying how he would get the bike shop to clean and lubricate his chain each time they serviced it. He was rather shocked to discover that it needed it more than that. But the transformation just makes me smile
It does?
