Your number one fear with cycling ?

[Linford]

[QUOTE 2046526, member: 45"]Perfect opportunity for you then. If you're not willing to step up to the plate and become that role model, then you have no right (see what I did there?) to complain about the two "chavs" which you are able to account for in Cheltenham.[/quote]

Not with those two though, but I already am in my own small way - and they are getting it

See, they aren't stupid. They know that a social worker type person only 'gives a toss' because that is their chosen method of putting bread on the table.

 

[Linford]

[QUOTE 2046521, member: 45"]Yup. Lived and worked.

You, on the other hand, don't.[/quote]

My problem is passing traffic. I live between the roughest area and the town and it's centre, with council estates 50 yards in one direction, and 200 yards in another.Before that, My old house backed onto a very rough area, and occasionally suffered from passing traffic looking for trouble.

How often in your road in Brum did you see groups of chav's walking on both the road and the pavments whilst at the same time scouting lines of parked cars for anything worth knocking a window out for, as this happens all the time where I live.

Last time I challenged one of these fearless track suited types, it ended up in court - he is now doing life for murder for sticking a screwdriver in someones head for their I-phone

 

[BrumJim]

There are a lot of reasons for uprooting ones family and moving 100 miles away. I spent this morning in Yatton, and was in Cheddar collecting a horse for a friend on sunday so I am familiar with where you moved, and have spent enough time in Brum over the years to see why it wasnt a difficult decision to make.

Having spoken to him just before the move, it was a very difficult decision.

The guys in the co I was visiting all commute there from Northampton Kettering, Banbury, Swansea, and stay in B&B during the week, so there was nothing to stop you doing similar if Brum was so hot as a place to raise a family. There are good and bad parts in Brum, but the whole place is really not as nice give the choice is it.

How about the cost of it?

It is a lot to expect of your family to move from all their network of friends just for your career aspirations, and so it could only realistically happen if the new place was really a step up...don't you agree?

What makes you think that it was even partially for his career aspirations?

Sorry to step in, but it knowing Paul a bit, it seems as though you are making a number of fundamental assumptions that just don't apply.
Like the bloke who came round trying to sell us gas, and couldn't understand why getting the cheapest price wasn't the most important thing for us. Can you guess what was?

 

[theclaud]

My problem is passing traffic.

Those damn 4x4s clogging the place up again, eh? I know exactly what you mean.

 

[al78]

Like the bloke who came round trying to sell us gas, and couldn't understand why getting the cheapest price wasn't the most important thing for us. Can you guess what was?

You are all electric?

 

[BrumJim]

You are all electric?

No, but a family full of eccentrics.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

My real biggest fear is coming down with something that would stop me riding permanently.

 

[Linford]

Having spoken to him just before the move, it was a very difficult decision.



How about the cost of it?

They car share, and due to the dismantling of the manufacturing industry, the people with these very specialist skills have to travel nowadays. There was 30 or companies doing this when I started in the business 25 years ago, and now down to about 10.

I won't take this further out of respect for MrP as I feel the line has been crossed (as said on the other thread about biofuel), but criticism of lifestyle choice seems fair game on here, and I got drawn in

[QUOTE 2047567, member: 45"]There are a lot of reasons for moving, you're right. I don't need to discuss any of them with you though. Not liking Birmingham wasn't one of them.

Birmingham is great.[/quote]

Nothing more to say Paul. Sorry if I offended

 

[Alan Frame]

Don't like descending , not keen on uphill , but flat is fun .

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

My biggest fear is finally having to stop riding.
I've had to face it once and it tore me apart.

 

[Broughtonblue]

Being rear ended. Came close recently, cresting a hill in heavy rain when I heard the sound of tyres failing to grip the road. Check behind and saw that vehicle was close enough for me to see the brand of phone the driver was using. So I'm off down the hill like a man possessed. Just not quick enough, the car connected with me giving me the gentlest of nudges; bit of tickle you might say. He then over took me crashing through the 30 mph signs as we entered the village at the bottom of the hill side-by-side and he was still on his phone. No point in getting anti or stressed about it. What can I do to change the culture of a nation?

i fear getting 'rear ended'!!!!

 

[BrumJim]

My head says the fear of getting squashed by a big lorry that didn't even know I was there is the biggest.
But I get a lot of anxiety dreams, and they are all based on my bike being stolen. None at all on accidents.

 

[citybabe]

I'm concerned about having my bike stolen again . Had one stolen a couple of months ago and it's not a nice feeling

 

[al78]

My real biggest fear is coming down with something that would stop me riding permanently.

That is my fear as well, or having an accident that would prevent me from cycling/walking/doing all the active hobbies that I enjoy, forever.

I know a woman who fell down the stairs in her house and broke her leg, prior to that she enjoyed going out for day walks and walking weekends, a year later she still cannot walk more than a couple of hundred yards.

 

[Peowpeowpeowlasers]

I sometimes see a bloke near me, riding a hand-cycle. He's living proof that a disability need not end your enjoyment of the outdoors.