Bike:car
May.05, 2010, filed under Cycling
One of the fine, upstanding members of the League of Gentlemen Cyclists found this image showing how many folded Bromptons can fit into a single car parking space:
As a regular cycle commuter, not to mention all-round cycling obsessive, I am annoyed, quite a lot of the time, by the crass, proprietorial, territorial behaviour I witness from some drivers — not all of them, but a good proportion. The road tax accusation being a case in point. I think this image neatly illustrates why any form of taxation for cyclists is beyond ridiculous — not least because there are plenty of cars now that are not required to pay vehicle excise duty, and on the same basis requiring cyclists to pay tax for using their bikes on the road would be a level of insanity the likes of which even God has never seen.
Sorry. Came over a bit Stilgar there.
I was at a training course recently in which the frankly astonishing fact was presented that something like 33% of the copper found in the San Francisco Bay comes from cars; the brakes, to be precise. Our global dependency on the automobile has environmental, health and economic impacts far beyond the obvious. It’s not just about noise, traffic and the KSI stats.
Although, when you read that there has been a case in which a driver killed a cyclist and the judge said it wasn’t dangerous driving, even though he was on the opposite side of the road and doing 20mph more than the speed limit, you have to wonder whether the morons out there who act like driving a car is their unalienable right will ever get just how uneven the cost:benefit ratio really is.
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May 9th, 2010 on 18:28
Mt Addams would be pleased – have you counted the Bromptons? Here’s a clue there are 7 rows and 6 bikes in every row – this also neatly happens to be an approximation to the time you can run a 1 watt LED replacement bulb for a 50 watt halogen spotlight on 1 unit of electricity….in days.
May 9th, 2010 on 18:59
Yes. There are 42. Check the mouseover text.
It also happens to be the answer to the meaning of life, according to the sadly departed Douglas Adams.