A Crash Course in Cycling (or, why everyone should be a cyclist)

[Wolfshade]

It might be my slightly perverted world view, but I can't see what difference that "remorse" has on it.

"Yeah, I defrauded HRMC of £3.6bn of revenue, but I am geninuely sorry"
"Oh, that's fine, just pay £2.50."
"Ok if that makes amends it seems fair..."

Really, it is stupid, plus the law discriminates against pyscopaths who can't show remorse

[Psychosplodge]

Well its that one isn't it, if you maintain your innocence you're not showing remorse so can't get parole. Or receive a stiffer sentence as you're not showing remorse for your actions...

[Wolfshade]

Facta non verba

-Which is actually quite confusing if you swap between classic and medieval latin where it can be read to mean the opposite, but that is an aside for another day...

It doesn't matter what you say, it is the works that matters.

[Wolfshade]

Jaguar, who regularly help teamsky troll other professional teams have just given teamsky their latest support car:


Oh that's right a modified F-TYPE Coupé.

[Psychosplodge]

Very nice.

[Wolfshade]

Suddenly the role of support driver got more fun...

[CoffeeGrunt]

Given the content of the thread lately, isn't "crash course" kinda bad taste now?

[Wolfshade]

Possibly. Unfortuately, it is the negative things which make the news, so the fatalities etc. It is quite interesting that the death of cyclists is still news worth, whereas motorists deaths very rarely make national news or even regional news.

The title is an obvious ape of the feminism and lgbt thread, it was supposed to be more light hearted but it never stayed that way. In the same way that feminism thread has issues with the privilidged males, and the lbgt thread with privilidged hetros, so this thread highlights the issues of privildige of the motorist within the society.

Where you have people from the AA stating things like they don't think that courts are too lenient with their sentencing of murdering motorists only 1 in 5 seeing gaol time, whereas if they were to kill another motorist then it rises to 6 in 10. It is clear that the cyclist is treated like a 2nd class citizen.

[Wolfshade]

So slightly less fatalistic.

Elevation! Everyone likes elevations, well unless it is a song by U2... Googlemaps has just rolled out an update to their service which should enable everyone to see the evlation of their route this is on the smart phone version. It isn't currently not on the play store but can be found here! [url]http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23578570567714420[/url]

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Now for something shocking:

People living near a cycle path are more likely to do more exercise overall, according to a new study published today in the American Journal of Public Health.



Who would have thought easy access to infrastructure would encourage people to use it....

The study also found that the increase in walking and cycling was not offset by a reduction in other physical activity.
The benefits were equally spread between men and women and between adults of different ages and social groups, but was more likely to benefit those who did not have access to a car.

[Wolfshade]

3 years after being rented in london a Boris bike has arrived in Wolverhampton. I am not saying that that is how long it would take an otherwise 12 hour ride on one of those heavy beasties but you know...