On Aug 15, 8:24*pm, Dave - Cyclists VOR
wrote:
On 15/08/2012 17:09, pensive hamster wrote:
[...]
Do you comprehend the meaning of the terms 'selective', 'misleading',
and 'interim'?

I do, but it seems you don't. *There is nothing 'selective' or
'misleading' about the research at all.


You don't seem to have read or comprehended what I wrote. I did not
say that the research itself was 'selective' or 'misleading'. I said
your quote from what appears to be an interim assessment (not the
final research) was selective and misleading. You seem to be cherry-
picking the research.

Further, you do not provide a link to the actual research report so
that the reader can judge the research for themselves. You expect them
to accept your summary of the research.

You seem to have, as the fragrant Mary Archer said of her husband, 'a
talent for inaccurate précis'.


That you find it contradicts
what you would like to believe is your problem.


My problem is that you seem to twist the research to suit your own
beliefs.


Do you have any answer to my initial questions about the kind of
people who barely recognise the bicycle as a legitimate mode of
transport?

You mean your rather pathetic attempt at humour?


I am curious to know what sort of person would hold or express the
sort of views you put in your sig. I imagine they might be a bit like
the sort of person Steve Coogan portrayed in 'Saxondale'. Come to
think of it, I don't think I have ever seen Alan Partridge cycling,
either.

Or I imagine they might be the sort of people who go paintballing, or
go 'offroading' in 4x4s. People who look a bit like the people in the
photo I linked to. People with a poor sense of balance, who struggle
with a bicycle, wobble about all over the road, and fall off
frequently.

At any rate, they must be strange people, who apparently see the
bicycle as a vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange, and who
feel cycling is a bit embarrassing. And especially, if they fail to
see its purpose, that suggests they must be people of very limited
intelligence. One imagines they would be totally flummoxed by a
wheelbarrow, for example.


Do you find cycling a bit embarrassing?

I think cyclists are an embarrassment to themselves. *The general public
think so too. *"For them, cycling is a bit embarrassing".


You've changed the quote now, from '"Many people' to 'the general
public'. They are not equivalent terms. Do you have a link to any
research showing how many people think cycling is a bit embarrassing?


Grown men riding children's toys? *Clad in fluorescent lycra?


OK, I agree about the fluorescent lycra.

Do you get any
exercise?

Plenty thank you. *BTW - cycling isn't the only form of exercise
available. In fact it's not even a very good form of exercise.



Face the facts.

Which facts would you like me to face?

The facts that the general public think cyclists are poor or strange,
and an embarrassment.


Maybe on planet Dave they think that.



Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton, of Lancaster
University, wrote in an interim assessment of the Understanding Walking
and Cycling study. "For them, cycling is a bit embarrassing, they fail
to see its purpose, and have no interest in integrating it into their
lives, certainly on a regular basis."