Spot the difference.....

[ComedyPilot]

Now what is the difference?

That's right folks, unless you can see through the crap the media are telling you, you only believe cycling is for sporting types.

Don't take my word for it, see for yourself - Google image search the following and just look at the glaring difference between 'Dutch cycling' and 'British cycling'......

Now I know I got a bit @rsey on the VP retirement thread, for which I am sorry, but I truly believe that, unless we MASSIVELY change the public's perception of cycling, we will NEVER get the 2/3 wheeled nirvana enjoyed by our close neighbours in the low countries.

Or am I wrong?

 

[srw]

*ahem*
London

It's really noticeable over the last couple of years that we've turned a corner. There are still loads of slim men in lycra chafing at every red light, but more and more there are men and women of all sizes, shapes and ages using a bike as a tool to get from A to Z.

 

[400bhp]

WGAF

 

[ComedyPilot]

WGAF

ME

 

[400bhp]

I KNOW

BUT NO-ONE ELSE CARES

 

[Fnaar]

Cycling with headphones in? No helmets? No SPD clogs?

 

[ComedyPilot]

[QUOTE 2476334, member: 30090"]Agreed. Even more so when you consider how bad the capital was for cycling going back some years.

People are slowly evolving CP.[/quote]
Not bloody quick enough.

 

[Andy84]

The equivalent search to "British Cycling" would be "Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie" wouldn't it?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=K...NeWq0AWNv4BI&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=644

 

[bobcat]

I believe Holland has a very healthy count of carbon and lycra on a weekend when people get out there "best" .

 

[ComedyPilot]

The equivalent search to "British Cycling" would be "Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie" wouldn't it?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie&safe=off&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=BwqlUbzONeWq0AWNv4BI&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=644

I see what you did there...but that's why it is so insidious, the corporate scum bods at 'British Cycling' don't call it 'British Sport Cycling' or 'British Cycle Sport Union'

You can't sell t-shirts, jerseys, team kit or logo'd bikes if the image of British cycling was one of an old man riding along a lane going to his allotment.....

 

[Peteaud]

But how do they log their Strava segments?

 

[vernon]

Not bloody quick enough.