Cars.
I don't understand how people can get so whoozy over cars. I cycle to work, and it always amuses me when people say "Why don't you drive?"

"Because its quicker by bike, and I don't have to pay for petrol or parking" I say.

"But it's so much more convenient to drive!" they say.

What? Have people really become that brainwashed by car manufacturers advertising of the supposed free lifestyle that driving brings that they are utterly incapable of utilising any other form of transport? "Oh, I could never cycle to work. I'm too unfit" some folk say before telling me they live a mile away. So they drive. And pay for parking. And walk the half mile in from there.

I can and do drive. Why would I want to spend an hour of my life each day staring at the metal box next in the line in front of me as we edge closer to the daily grind? Why would I do that when I can spend the same time cycling through the countryside enjoying the outside world, getting some exercise, and cycling past queues upon queues of standing traffic? I drive when I need to transport large heavy things from A to B, or travel a great distance which actually would be inconvenient by any other route. But that doesn't mean I give a flying fuck about your new alloy wheels, how the price of petrol is skyrocketing, or the poor persecuted motorist is being targeted with the wholly unfair and not at all brightly coloured and well signposted in advance speed cameras.

I do like Top Gear though. Odd, that.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 8:46, 1 reply)

Me too
a few pages back!

There's a regular evening training session I go to, in the middle of town. I can cycle to the front door and leave the bike inside.

No parking, no scary walk between the venue and car park in the dark - door-to-door with no expense.

Nobody else does it though. It's below their dignity.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 9:24, closed)