Your cycling fallacy is…

[mjr]

You an cycle pretty much anywhere in the town without using the roads if that's what you want to do.

1. Oi! City!
2. You can but you'll be taking a long detour in a couple of places. It's much quicker if you'll use minor roads where they're a connecting part of the route.

MK has some things right but some basics wrong (like why does the cycleway always climb or descend, not the carriageway? Which more often has a motor?) and the city is a giant example of how you can make cycling easy but if you make motoring easy too then inertia means most motorists will keep driving.

 

[raleighnut]

You shouldn't wear headphones whilst cycling, listening to music could distract you from the road.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Haven't read all pages TBH, but in case it hasn't been mentioned DO NOT ask about @Fnaar and his cycling phallusy

 

[ColinJ]

Northern cyclists think gentle inclines are hills.

Or in my case today - northern cyclists think that steep hills are gentle inclines!

 

[classic33]

“People cycling cause congestion / Providing for cycling won't ease congestion”

 

[speccy1]

Cake, of any description, is bad for you

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Women like bikes with baskets.
Give me panniers anytime!

 

[speccy1]

Glasses keep the flies out of your eyes..............I beg to differ, feckers!

 

[speccy1]

Shaving your legs makes you faster

 

[Blue Hills]

To assert yourself on town/city roads and claim your position you need super super bright laser lights.

 

[Blue Hills]

This year's model is better than last year's model.

This decade's model is better than last decade's model.

Cos the cycle industry's sole concern is continuous real improvement and ever more simplicity of ownership.

 

[briantrumpet]

Militant cyclist.

I was called a "militant cyclist", because I choose to use my bike as my primary form of transport, and choose to ride on the road rather than an adjacent PWABPO (pavement with a bike painted on). I wouldn't have minded so much if the person addressing me so weren't a part-time judge, a relation of whom used their car to try to persuade me to ride on the PWABPO.

Anyway, I think I shall now call all drivers who choose to use their cars as a primary form of transport 'militant drivers'.

 

[HLaB]

Lance Armstrong

 

[classic33]

Lance Armstrong

@blazed

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

"I didn't hit you or force you off the road so that was a safe pass."

Some Dawes Galaxy owners are under 50

Just got a Galaxy. Edit to add: since I'm 42 perhaps it would be appropriate to name it Zaphod.