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Bicycle sales leave motors in the dust
Article in (the last place you would expect it!) the 'Drive' section of today's Age!!! "According to Australian Transport Safety Bureau figures, there were more than a million bikes sold in the 2002-3 financial year". Cars wil ONLY (estimate) sell 960,000. Goes on to talk about safety/accident figures related to cyclists. 26 killed in 2003 (that high? thawt it was lower...) Cyclists account for about 2% of road deaths (isnt that almost identical to our poportion of trips??? ) and about 11% of seriously injured each year (now that seems disproportionately high on our part ) Says other stuff too but being a 2-finger bandit on the keyboard, someone else can tickle the plastic! -- flyingdutch |
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Bicycle sales leave motors in the dust
flyingdutch wrote:
Article in (the last place you would expect it!) the 'Drive' section of today's Age!!! "According to Australian Transport Safety Bureau figures, there were more than a million bikes sold in the 2002-3 financial year". Cars wil ONLY (estimate) sell 960,000. Goes on to talk about safety/accident figures related to cyclists. 26 killed in 2003 (that high? thawt it was lower...) Cyclists account for about 2% of road deaths (isnt that almost identical to our poportion of trips??? ) and about 11% of seriously injured each year (now that seems disproportionately high on our part ) Says other stuff too but being a 2-finger bandit on the keyboard, someone else can tickle the plastic! -- flyingdutch I wonder how severely the interpretation of purchase stats are warped by people like me who bought three bikes in one financial year... T |
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Bicycle sales leave motors in the dust
Tamyka Bell wrote:
I wonder how severely the interpretation of purchase stats are warped by people like me who bought three bikes in one financial year... I bought 5 cars in the last year. Company cars. They count. No company bicycles bought during this period, but one of our empoyees started riding to work this week (because the judge told him not to drive his car). These stats are not very surprising and nothing to get excited about. It does not represent some sudden bicycle awareness or ecological tsunami. In the USA bicycles outsold cars every year from 1900 to 1970 (last year I heard the figures). That doesn't mean there are more bikes than cars on the roads. Theo |
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"Tamyka Bell" wrote in message ...
snip I wonder how severely the interpretation of purchase stats are warped by people like me who bought three bikes in one financial year... T and people (none of them here) gave me a hard time for buying two this year. : D Parbs |
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Theo Bekkers wrote:
I bought 5 cars in the last year. Company cars. They count. Which reminds me of something that I was once told and that was that most cars on the road are company cars, which, if correct, means that many more people own bicycles then cars. |
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salary sacrificing a commuter bicycle in Australia
Terry Collins writes:
Which reminds me of something that I was once told and that was that most cars on the road are company cars, which, if correct, means that many more people own bicycles then cars. Who do you have to root to get salary sacrifice concessions for commuter bicycles? I did a bit of googling, found an article from the UK about it being allowed over there if the primary use is commuting. Found nothing about it in Australia, though. |
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Bicycle sales leave motors in the dust
But how many of these bike sold were childrens bikes -- trow |
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Bicycle sales leave motors in the dust
chesty Wrote: Terry Collins writes: Which reminds me of something that I was once told and that was that most cars on the road are company cars, which, if correct, mean that many more people own bicycles then cars. Who do you have to root to get salary sacrifice concessions for commuter bicycles? I did a bit of googling, found an article from the UK about it being allowed over there if the primary use is commuting. Found nothing about it in Australia, though. Sadly, even if it were allowed, it would attract FBT, which would mak it as attractive as buying a bike yourself. The FBT rate on moto vehicles falls successively at 15000k/yr, 25000k/yr and some highe level as well that I have forgotten. Alas, I'm going to come up jus short of 10000 on the bike this year... Don't talk to me about tax bills! Ritc -- ritcho |
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trow Wrote: But how many of these bike sold were childrens bikes. and how many were mini-motorbikes ? (back from my first training bunch, 2nd breakfast, then ride to work.) -- aeek |
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Bicycle sales leave motors in the dust
..and more importantly the mileage these bikes see. Even though more of us are riding more often (regardless of Bicyclin Vic efforts – not that there is anything wrong with that, if that’s wh you are…) a lot of these bikes rolled outa the bike shops hardly get an kms on them. I bump into some guys here at work (big office in the ****ty) who sa they’ve got a tricky roadie or full susp MTB etc, tell me all abou what it’s got, the level it’s pitched at etc, but when I go into coo places to ride/best tracks/routes etc they go kinda quiet – “.nah don’t have the time what with kids/work/goin out/partner/family/training etc”. To be honest I don’t get that much spare time to go out for a ride o my smick MTB, which is why I commute to/from work on my other dung chromoly s/spd MTB, try & fit in riding to get other things done – se mates, visit the folks, etc. Maybe even fit some nice detours in to where I can -- Marx SS |
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