You are reading a single comment by @youramericanlover and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@youramericanlover
^^^Of course language is important (I'm not going to try and undo the years of hard work by Derrida and Foucoult), but they question is worth asking: are we accused of being second-class by stickers on a lorry, or by streets that are unfit, laws that don't protect, politicians that don't respond to cycle deaths, and cars that crowd our space? The reality is that we are second class road users and stickers don't make that any more or less real. The stickers could be bright and yellow and say FREE HANDJOBS FOR CYCLISTS but that won't change our rights on the road if say for example the Bricklayers Arms roundabout never gets redesigned.