Daniel Barlow wrote:

JohnB writes:

I cannot agree more. You can talk and argue until you are blue in the
face but still people will drive just a few hundred yards. They*know*
you are right but they cannot make the change. There are always excuses.

This sounds like almost as horrible a generalisation as "cyclists are
all lawless lycra louts who hold up traffic and strike terror into the
hearts of innocent pedestrians"

I don't say *all* people, although IME it would be the vast majority of
motorists (including many who also claim to be cyclists).

I can quite believe there are some people like that: I've worked with
a few people myself who I don't expect to see on a bike ever in my
life ......
Doesn't mean _everyone_ is like that, though.

IMO there will be a crunch time - it will be when there is no more
space and those of us who have not fallen into the car-culture will
have the advantage. only problem is taht we may have to take to the
pavements :-(

Yay pedal-powered post-apocalypse scenarios. I should pop into my LBS
this weekend sometime and see if they've got any rotating knives I can
clip to my spokes.

In days of yore a fellow barrow-boy clubmate had an "attachment" [1]
fixed the hub flange of his trike's offside wheel.

[1] I'll say no more, but it was pretty lethal to paintwork.

John B