Cars to be slower than bicycles in 2029

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-10-years.html

They already are!

On 24/03/2018 09:56, wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-10-years.html

They already are!

QUOTE:
If the current trend of declining average speeds continue, bicycles will
travel faster than cars across our towns and cities by 2027, the Daily
Telegraph reported.
ENDQUOTE

In "our towns and cities", all the authorities need to do is install
extra sets of totally unnecessary and gratuitous traffic lights and the
average speed of motor traffic will fall as a result, whilst the average
speed of cyclists won't.

And we all know why that is.

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:09:29 +0000, JNugent
wrote:

On 24/03/2018 09:56, wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-10-years.html

They already are!

QUOTE:
If the current trend of declining average speeds continue, bicycles will
travel faster than cars across our towns and cities by 2027, the Daily
Telegraph reported.
ENDQUOTE

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group of
MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow sunglasses who
put their journey times on Strava so they can be king of the small
piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently they achieved
a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed for utility
cyclists is 9MPH.

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:56:38 PM UTC, Peter Parry wrote:

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group of
MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow sunglasses who
put their journey times on Strava so they can be king of the small
piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently they achieved
a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed for utility
cyclists is 9MPH.

I used to fall off at 9mph!
My average was about 16-18mph.

wrote:
On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:56:38 PM UTC, Peter Parry wrote:

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group
of MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow
sunglasses who put their journey times on Strava so they can be king
of the small piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently
they achieved a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed
for utility cyclists is 9MPH.

I used to fall off at 9mph!
My average was about 16-18mph.

But not when you admitted blasting past schools breaking the speed limit.
I've a long memory.
How's the new job going Simon?
I hope that you are liking it.

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 6:27:31 PM UTC, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
wrote:
On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:56:38 PM UTC, Peter Parry wrote:

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group
of MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow
sunglasses who put their journey times on Strava so they can be king
of the small piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently
they achieved a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed
for utility cyclists is 9MPH.

I used to fall off at 9mph!
My average was about 16-18mph.

But not when you admitted blasting past schools breaking the speed limit.
I've a long memory.

Speed limits do not apply to bikes in 20mph zones.

How's the new job going Simon?
I hope that you are liking it.

It has shut down until next week.
When it starts up, I will get a call.

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:23:36 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 4:56:38 PM UTC, Peter Parry wrote:

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group of
MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow sunglasses who
put their journey times on Strava so they can be king of the small
piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently they achieved
a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed for utility
cyclists is 9MPH.

I used to fall off at 9mph!
My average was about 16-18mph.

Yes - but you were the archetypal MAMIL, rainbow hued sunglasses with
built in compocam, lurid Lycra, gloves with no fingers. The group
that bears no relationship to utility cyclists. Unfortunately they
also (and have for a century) have purporting to represent cycling in
the UK. They fought against dedicated cycle lanes, fitting lights on
bikes and promoted the daft idea of "vehicular cycling". More than
any other group they are directly responsible for the decline of
utility cycling in the UK. Holland is often used as the ideal for
cyclists yet amongst the thousands going to work each day a tiny
proportion are dressed like traffic cones for Christmas. UK, you need
the sunglasses to hide glare from lurid Lycra.

On 24/03/18 16:56, Peter Parry wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:09:29 +0000, JNugent
wrote:

On 24/03/2018 09:56, wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-10-years.html

They already are!

QUOTE:
If the current trend of declining average speeds continue, bicycles will
travel faster than cars across our towns and cities by 2027, the Daily
Telegraph reported.
ENDQUOTE

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group of
MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow sunglasses who
put their journey times on Strava so they can be king of the small
piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently they achieved
a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed for utility
cyclists is 9MPH.

Some Strava input would obviously be from towns and cities but no doubt
the Strava "average" is made up of all rides and gets pushed up by
Sunday rides outside built up areas.

The usual poor comparison made by journalists in response to the figure
for speed on "urban A-roads" mentioned by the DfT.

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:56:31 GMT, Peter Parry wrote:

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:09:29 +0000, JNugent
wrote:

On 24/03/2018 09:56, wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...itain-slower-B
ICYCLES-10-years.html

They already are!

QUOTE:
If the current trend of declining average speeds continue, bicycles
will travel faster than cars across our towns and cities by 2027, the
Daily Telegraph reported.
ENDQUOTE

Somewhat unlikely as the comparator used was a self reporting group of
MAMILS and Tour de Peckham angry young yobs in rainbow sunglasses who
put their journey times on Strava so they can be king of the small
piece of rising ground just outside Euston. Apparently they achieved
a speed of just over 16MPH. A more realistic speed for utility
cyclists is 9MPH.


Welcome Mr Parry to our fun-infested NG!

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