Time Out : Cycle City ...

The new Time Out just landed in the office, anyone had a read?

http://www.timeout.com/london/features/1711/London_cycling_special.html

my summary:

cycling is quicker across the city than the bus, the car of walking.

cyclists hate bendy busses and stupid peds.

peds hate cyclist riding the pavements.

Michael Hodges and the great London cycling debate. What a cnut.
Anyone with the inclination give him some stick...

"walking is much more likely to cut obesity levels than cycling, since it's cheaper and easier"

hmmn, i can see a lot of fatties walking yet not many on bikes.

The race thing was done by Top Gear months ago, shit journalism covering a feature already been covered. The article about bikes on pavements is absolutly ridiculous. How often do you seriously see a cyclist on a pavement going more than about 5mph and putting anyone at risk?? Ok kids do it a lot here and there but seriously what world is that guy living in??

The new Time Out just landed in the office, anyone had a read?

http://www.timeout.com/london/features/1711/London_cycling_special.html

Biggest load of cockbasket I've ever read, mostly. Hodges has been banging on about 'nazi-cyclists' for ages ... What got me was the assumption that all cyclists cycle A) to Get Fit (look at me, nothing could be further from the truth) and B) to attain some wierd middle class smug carbon-efficient kudos.

How about fun? Or 'cos its quicker to walk than get a bus? Or just Because?

In a way, though, I'm sort of glad that the only single speed in there was the puma bike with the cable 'downtube'.

"walking is much more likely to cut obesity levels than cycling, since it's cheaper and easier"

hmmn, i can see a lot of fatties walking yet not many on bikes.

aha but you've made the classic logical fallacy Decus Et Tutanem here, mate

more great Hodges bile:

"London is a place for thinking... [cycling] is essentially at odds with what being a londoner is all about ... [london] is also a place for nipping across the road and between cars; impossible when cyclists come charging through the gaps at speed."

wnaker.

aha but you've made the classic logical fallacy Decus Et Tutanem here, mate

not sure about that, the point that fatties are all over the place not on bikes shows the walking thing to not really measure up in the fitness stakes.

Michael Hodges and the great London cycling debate. What a cnut.
Anyone with the inclination give him some stick...

Fk it. This guy has suffered enough. A distinct lack of writing skills combined with small man syndrome has left him cutting a crap living writing nonsensical provocative shit[FONT=Arial].
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Biggest load of cockbasket I've ever read, mostly. Hodges has been banging on about 'nazi-cyclists' for ages ... What got me was the assumption that all cyclists cycle A) to Get Fit (look at me, nothing could be further from the truth) and B) to attain some wierd middle class smug carbon-efficient kudos.

How about fun? Or 'cos its quicker to walk than get a bus? Or just because its bang on trend for summer 08?

In a way, though, I'm sort of glad that the only single speed in there was the puma bike with the cable 'downtube'.

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cheeky editing!

Was this man dressed up and raped by the man who was jailed for having sex with a bike? Maybe this is where his hatred comes from?

I think Michael Hodges is quite funny - he takes the piss out of everyone and he does it quite well. He certainly knows how to wind people up...

Haven't we done all this already following the Observer piece?

I guess he is quite funny in the way he winds people up, but it is a very low form of humor like the way Jeremy Clarkson says something controversial to get his laughs. I have never come across this guy before as I have only flicked though time out once when I relived it free. He does seem to have a deep hatred for cyclist though and I wonder why it is so strong.

maybe he cant ride a bike??

i heard he once fell in love.. deep in love with a bike. there relationship blossomed over many long summer ride, sharp right hander and big open straight. then as time passed she was unshackled and many others rode her, in the end her parts were tired and she locked up as he traversed a tricky passing point near swains lane, pitching his over heavy head into the cold autumn pavement. cnt never got over it.

I'll let it pass and he will be forgiven, fk it revered! if he follows this article with an equally aggresive number on London based Utd & Liverpool fans

At least they posted my comment

                                                    The guy who wrote this is an idiot.

"London is also a city for nipping across the road and between cars"
Right so what were Londoners doing before cars then?
Mike

Haven't we done all this already following the Observer piece?

Yes but we have to do it with every article that comes out.

Jos is using the 'royal we' above.

Wouldn't you love Michael Hodges' job? He gets paid to rant. Poor sweetie, he must be a very miserable soul, so much anger. He should stop thinking so much and get on a bike :D

Happy VeeVee

one more ped to aim for.

I read it on the train back to London the other day.

What a load of drivel. He doesn't even really rant coherently :s

time out is a pile of shit anyway, i can't understand what the fuss is about. they're only articulating the views of their birkenstock-wearing, negative equity-fearing, child-as-young-adult rearing, buy-to-let portfolio-owning, prius-driving, johnston-voting, brompton-riding, gastropub-visiting, chattering, bourgeois london scum readership.