Velomobile causing a stir in Scotland

[Wobblers]

Nice rational reporting there then!

It's the Daily Record. Think of it as a left-leaning version of the Daily Mail, and you're pretty much there. Or, as it was memorably put in one episode of Rab C Nesbit: "moaning face Scotish newspaper". Reporting is, well, optional. Rational? That won't sell many papers!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If people can’t see a 2 metre long condom doing 30 mph, then they need to go to Barnard Castle.

 

[StuAff]

If people can’t see a 2 metre long condom doing 30 mph, then they need to go to Barnard Castle.

It's a Milan, one of the very fastest VMs, so quite possibly doing more than 30!

 

[fixedfixer]

A couple of years back when I was in the Western Isle I met a German couple who were touring with their VM’s. The guy was happy enough to let me have a test run in his. Brilliant, wicked, ace and for once the word awesome was appropriate. If you get a chance try one.

 

[ExBrit]

The first person to complete PBP in a Velomobile qualified on one of my 600k brevets. His is yellow. We call it the yellow submarine. I tried drafting it once. Waste of time - there is no draft.

 

[wafter]

Nice I guess to see such a fantastic creation recognised in the public consciousness, but the quality of the article is pretty dire.

Ostensibly it presents as a light-hearted observational piece, while beneath the surface smacks of misunderstanding (why would some mental German woman want to drive this weird contraption around this area that presumably makes a lot of its money from tourism?) and tacit disapproval.

It also seemingly legitimises the usual lack of concern ("we nearly ran it over, chortle") and prejudices ("we wondered if it'd stop at the lights") as well as the "legal dispite its diminutive size" - I guess because it looks like a car, but what does the size really have to do with anything?

Meh - I hope its pilot gets back to the vastly superior cycling infrastructure of her home country intact!

 

[404 Not Found Anywhere]

That is the general journalistic standard of that newspaper… really only fit for proctological use, and even then you’d have to be desperate!

 

[steveindenmark]

If there is a chance you are going to run over a bright green velomobile. You must be clinically blind. When I had my bike my biggest danger was drivers slowing down to look at me. You cannot miss them. Awful reporting.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How pathetic, I actually had to stop reading that article, but as others have said, it IS in 'The Record', the paper most knuckle draggers in west central Scotland read, along with the Scum... I mean Sun.

 

[byegad]

Not a velomobile, but on my Catrike Trail, I once have a guy pass me stop, on the brow of a hill and walk back to tell me he couldn't see me 'down there!

 

[FishFright]

Not a velomobile, but on my Catrike Trail, I once have a guy pass me stop, on the brow of a hill and walk back to tell me he couldn't see me 'down there!

I ask them if they can see the white lines on the road.

 

[grldtnr]

Not a velomobile, but on my Catrike Trail, I once have a guy pass me stop, on the brow of a hill and walk back to tell me he couldn't see me 'down there!

Least he had the good sense to stop on the brow of the hill , to tell you his inadequatsies.