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Lloyd has asked me to post the following message. He lives in Canada, but we've agreed that next time he's in London we'll go out for a beer and he will try my fixie out.
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Thanks for your interest and your tech skills that made this the most voted on survey ever for TreeHugger. Neat trick!
In my own defence, I would like to note:
a) I am a cyclist and bike year round, mainly on a road bike but in winter in snow on a mountain bike. Bikes are my main mode of transportation, including a 4500 km ride from Toronto to Vancouver.
b) The "movement" I talk about is to gain rights for cyclists to have safe bike lanes, educated drivers and more cyclists year round. it is a battle here.
c) it was not an article, it is a survey, a question. I could have phrased the intro a little better and have been a little more balanced, and understood the significance of separating the issue of the fixed gear and the brakes. I do now. I perhaps was made more concerned because we have ice and snow on the road, the bike lanes are full of snow, we are pushed out into narrower lanes and reaction time and stopping distance is critical.
regards, lloyd alter.