With tube strikes and terror threats in the past few years the number of cyclists I see always shoots up but does tend to trickle off again pretty quickly.
Whereas I think things like this do inspire quite a few to start/return to cycling permanently, I think it also sparks a lot of "good intentions" that lapse quickly back into tube-commuterdom after a bit of rain or a night on the sauce.
With tube strikes and terror threats in the past few years the number of cyclists I see always shoots up but does tend to trickle off again pretty quickly.
Whereas I think things like this do inspire quite a few to start/return to cycling permanently, I think it also sparks a lot of "good intentions" that lapse quickly back into tube-commuterdom after a bit of rain or a night on the sauce.