For fairweather cyclists

Capo

I had to check it wasn't 1st April when I read this:

http://www.springwise.com/weekly/2007-0 ... limatecars

Given the headline I thought it might be about rescuing cyclists post-crash or something, but no, they want to take you home if you can't hacak a bit of rain...

Would someone please post to the forum if they actually see a cyclist using one of these things!

BentMikey

LOL! Well cycling some of the time is better than not cycling at all.

purpleR

:oops: I've been known to jump on the bus if the weather's particularly bad - I commute on a bus route so a quid seems like a bargain in certain conditions! Rain isn't as likely to stop me as wind though. My cycle home from work is uphill and into the prevailing wind so can be nae fun if windy.

Jacomus-rides-Gen

Lets be honsest, they will be 99.9% guarenteed to be POBs not cyclists

BentMikey

I wish folks wouldn't keep using POB - we are all cyclists, and this is very classist. Would you much rather they were driving instead?

alecstilleyedye

it would be more useful as a kind of bike rac service which could come out and help you get going again (i would have used that yesterday with awkward tyre).

if you don't want to ride in bad weather…

i actually know one bloke who used to only cycle in the wet because it was too dangerous to ride his moto :roll:

Aidocp

alecstilleyedye wrote:

it would be more useful as a kind of bike rac service which could come out and help you get going again (i would have used that yesterday with awkward tyre).

if you don't want to ride in bad weather…

i actually know one bloke who used to only cycle in the wet because it was too dangerous to ride his moto :roll:

We've got somebody at our work like that won't take the MB in the Winter or really wet days or days he just wants to go to the pub .

jonnywilkinson

seems like a decent service if you get caught out and have the spondoolies. the only other serious roadie at my work place confessed to me the other night when the weather went berserk he pulled over and jumped in a black cab with his bike. he told me not to tell anyone. end of the day if you are not feeling it then why put yourself at risk due to some macho sentiment

dondare

BentMikey wrote:

I wish folks wouldn't keep using POB - we are all cyclists, and this is very classist. Would you much rather they were driving instead?

Nah. Someone might be riding a bike but that doesn't make them a Cyclist. If the bike is a ramshackle relic with soft tyres and a rusty chain, the saddle too low and always in the wrong gear, brakes not working, being ridden on the pavement most of the time by someone who doesn't know the law or the Highway Code and doesn't care about either, then that someone is a POB.

On the other hand even a real Cyclist might be forgiven for getting a cab home occasionally, in the event of bad weather, breakdown, a couple of drinks too many or just wanting to give the bike a rest, for instance

peejay78

there are far fewer cyclists on the road right now than there were earlier in the "summer".

BentMikey

Dondare, you normally post very sensibly, but that's just elitist and wrong. Anyone riding a bike is a cyclist. Some just ride better than others.

jakob_s

dondare wrote:

BentMikey wrote:

I wish folks wouldn't keep using POB - we are all cyclists, and this is very classist. Would you much rather they were driving instead?

Nah. Someone might be riding a bike but that doesn't make them a Cyclist.

I suggest that only people who get paid to ride for a living can call themselves cyclists.

BentMikey

LOL! It's you that convinced me to stop using POB, Jakob.

jakob_s

Yes, I was being sarcastic:).

A cyclist is a person riding a bike. Call it a POB if you like, but then you are a POB as well. Same thing.

dondare

Well then, all I can say is that some cyclists are pretty disreputable.

Cadfael

I am more likely to jump on a bus or grab a taxi if I am walking or hiking when it is raining. On the bike, providing I have the correct rain gear I could ride for hours in the rain... in fact sometimes I enjoy it.

Even without the correct gear.. I may be wet, but I rarely cold on the bike. What does put me of is high winds.

This sounds to me like a taxi firm trying to put a spin angle on the unusual wet weather we are having lately.

POB? Prat on a bike?

dondare

POB: Person on Bike; Pedestrian on Bike; could be Prat on Bike.