Now Peyote, Cyclist and our lurkers from C+ - don't get cross about this - but I think Andrew Grimes' article in yesterday's "Manchester" needs a wider audience. Feel free to carry it over to C+ for a rant over it!
I think your contingent will be outraged at some of the comments within this passage.
Andrew Grimes in Manchester Paper wrote:
This week's Bike To Work Day was got up by a bunch of nostalgic cranks
who affect to misread the date on the calendar. Their ludicrous conceit
is that the year is 1905.
. The heaviest traffic consists of horses and carts.
Andrew Grimes wrote:
Do I exaggerate? Just a bit - but the motives of this perilous stunt seem clear: if they believe sufficient peopls are prepared to risk life and limb to pedal through Manchester in the rush hour, the clock can be turned bacl 100 years. All the thousands of cars , dreadful HGVs will all take the hint and just vanish down some time warp of a black hole
We cannot uninvent and it is a way of life for majority. I could not get to work without my car and nor could my wife. We ride bikes and we ride horses when we can - but Wildy 
has to be careful. She's tough - but can run out of stamina if we push her too hard - because of what happened in her past. Andrew Grimes in Manchester paper wrote:
I was fascinated, not to mention impressesd by the heroism of our transport reporter Clarissa Satchell in agreeing on Biking Day to cycle through Chorlton's fiendishly congested traffic in the cause oof neutralistic journalistic enquiry. She has not sat on a saddle since pedalling throught he quiet country Welsh lanes ten years ago.
Well, around here is not the same as in Penrith or Carlisle and neither are on a par with M-Manchester 
Andrew Grimes in MEN wrote:
"I set off with a distinct wobble" said Clarissa with a game smile.
Without questionning Clarissa's ability to recover the steadiness of her girlhood, I could not help wondering what would happen to a motorist setting off on wobbling wheels? The cops would be there with breathalyzer, asking awkward questions about licences and tax and insurances. Cylists
'Ere we go then 
Grimes wrote:
do not have to worry about suhc encounters as they whizz along, making up their own minds as to which traffic law they decide to obey
free from the handcuff carrying guardians of the highway code
Andrew Grimes in Men wrote:
Now this is very, very true. Nobody wants to have a legal problem or damage to car or claims on insurance.
Andrew G wrote:
I marvel at Clarissa's courage. I could never have go on the bike Suppose someone does knock me off by mistake? Liz Clarke, exec director of a local cycling group urges cyclists to be confident. They are a part of the traffic and entitled to be there - after all.
This is a tendentious statement. Legally - it's true. Present law allows cyclists to weave in and out of traffic, to the peril of bus drivers and taxi drivers with high blood pressure and dodgy tickers
. [b[ But the law is an ass and should be changed immediately [/b[
I have nothing against cyclists on tracks. Nor do I have strong feelings about rural cyclists [i]] phew" - but all cyclists and caravanners should be barred from our seething conurbations
Andrew - I dare you to post this on C+ or any cycling forum! You gotta death wish or something?
Andrew Grimes in Men wrote:
I do not know how many turned out to bike to work - but I hope that all of them got to and from work without stopping off for repairs in an overworked A&E
As far as am aware - all relatively quiet here - our main casualty being the bloke who got injured when someone threw a brick at a car on Bike to Work Day,.....
[size=9][Edited for some typos as was watching Dr Who at the time But thinking about it - did not come across any cyclists on Bike to Work Day! [ /size]
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