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@JWestland
Ah cool RE women's tour of Britain :)
QUOTE: This might be true, but it still doesn't make it right for CTC to have anything to do with it. There is not some God given right for everybody to get equal treatment in professional sport, a branch of show business.
###Nope there's no God given right but I support it. Female cycling publicity also seems to may have gotten women cycling.
If it's a good way to spend CTC money, that indeed depends. If cycling uptake increases, you may say it is. If it's the most cost effective way, that's another discussion...hard to say w/o any meaningful measuring of effect.
The cycle paths here usually are Sustrans dual use with pedestrians on them, with small kids and/or dogs and therefore aren't suitable for ripping it up. Liz' 10 mph applies...ones on the road are full of parked cars generally.
Bad public transport and no license are highly effective in keeping me on the bike. £10 a week for public transport, that's money I can spend on bike stuff or food instead of sitting in a narrow bus on a narrow seat with stuffy air with 40 grumpy people that don't want to be in it...