Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

this is such a low degrading tread. it is everything that cycling is against.

if you think cycling is a statement against cars in general, for lack of an better word you're a codswalloping idiot.

why is this topic have more car than fixed wheel bicycles? the answeris so obvious, there's more cars than fixed wheel bicycles out there.

I've never heard such shit in my life...'cycling' isn't against anything...it's a sport!
If you're personally against cars then that's your call...but don't try to speak on behalf of cyclists as a whole...i've been cycling for 28 years and never driven a car and i'm not 'against' this thread.
If cycling has proved anything to me over the years it's that it's something that can be done by anyone...regardless of their other hobbies or what they did previously.
And if this forum has proved anything it's that the people on here are able to get along just fine in the real world...regardless of their other hobbies or what they did previously...it's only when they're hidden behind a keyboard that the problems start.
I'm a cyclist and will be till the day i die....but i'm also an individual who will continue to make his own decisions about everything....so don't try and speak for me by spouting your bullshit about what cycling is 'against'.
If you find it that offensive there's plenty of other things to read about on here.....photography, cakes, celebrity lookalikes....even BIKES.

It's a mode of transport for most people, no ?

about that, I found a quote from an American who used to live in Sweden;

*First and foremost: bicycling in Sweden is not about a bunch of environmentally aware yuppies working hard at being pleased with themselves. Bikes in Sweden are not conveyances for spandex-coated fashion plates wearing color-coordinated jerseys and (maybe) helmets. Bicycles are real transportation for real people. Everyone rides. They’re going somewhere and doing something. The idea of using a bike to make a spectacle of oneself, the life goal of most riders in LA, seems inconcievable here. Bicycles in Sweden are real transportation, not a sporty toy. Bicycling is not a “fashion sport,” to use a term from the LA Times. People bicycle to work because it is the most sensible form of transportation: door-to-door, cheap, and easy to park. Because bikes are genuinely tools for transportation, not toys, people don’t treat them like toys. Gone with the spandex crowd are the expensive, show-off bikes so common in the US. (Have you noticed that these pricey toys are usually ridden by people whose tails are so bloated that they probably need to call the fire department to extract their bike-seats from their asses? These characters like to brag that their bikes are eight ounces lighter than mine, but most of them could easily afford to reduce their own weight by about 800 ounces.) Most bikes in Göteborg are, frankly, in pretty bad shape. And no wonder: they are subjected to heavy use, parking in the rain, and more time spent riding them than playing with them in the garage.

*Steve Maas

interesting view of a driver (not all)
http://www.cuntscorner.com/cunt_view.php?cunt_id=3827

It's a mode of transport for most people, no ?

Cricket is a hobby for a lot of people too but it's still a sport....cycling may be a mode of transport but it's also a sport...especially as a large number of people on here ride 'track' bikes designed for 'racing' on a track. Be pedantic if it makes you feel better.

..........gloves.......coming........off........

:))

is this not a thread entitled 'car chat. For chat about cars'

i put my opinion in the ring about cars. as when i chat about cars generally i talk about all the people they kill, all the noise they make, how they are a pain as they get 40seconds of green time whereas pedestrain get 7secs (priorities), how the governemnts budget is about 80% given to roads and 20% public transport, how drivers generally get frustatred as they are slow and other people get in thier road.....etc.

i really don't like them. and the good thing about the culture of fixed is that it is couteracting the culture of cool (that car companies spend millions on) that cars have created around these usless machines. this thread so far (although i haven't been through it all) is the opposite.

is this not a thread entitled 'car chat. For chat about cars'

Ah, is that the cause of all the problems? In that case... problem solved.

Cycles are a form of transport and a sport but the majority of use in london is for daily use (around 500,000 people use them every day in london last time i did a club run numbers were not that high). Now with projects like velib (in paris) they are defined as a public transport system

Ah, is that the cause of all the problems? In that case... problem solved.

sorted. i'm going to find a picture of my car and put it up now.

A wise decision VB.....maybe now it can continue in the trouble free way it originally did.

Merry Christmas one and all.

usless machines

Tell you what, I race you from London to Manchester while transporting a sofa.

You on your fixed, me in my car.

£100 says I win!

i'll put a few quid on the nurse!

Love the tags to this thread... they make me die inside.

is this not a thread entitled 'car chat. For chat about cars'
i put my opinion in the ring about cars. as when i chat about cars generally i talk about all the people they kill, all the noise they make, how they are a pain as they get 40seconds of green time whereas pedestrian get 7secs (priorities), how the governments budget is about 80% given to roads and 20% public transport, how drivers generally get frustrated as they are slow and other people get in thier road.....etc.

i really don't like them. and the good thing about the culture of fixed is that it is counteracting the culture of cool (that car companies spend millions on) that cars have created around these useless machines. this thread so far (although i haven't been through it all) is the opposite.

Why didn't you say something like that instead of just telling people to fuck off?
What response did you expect?

sounds good to me. but i'd prefer to bring the house

in the new year?

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My morning car porn...I mean... appreciation ;]

Merc 300 SL Gullwing

Why didn't you say something like that instead of just telling people to fuck off?
What response did you expect?

i agree i wasn't probably the most diplomatic - a example of why you don't go to meetings at work after consuming numerous bottles of wine. apologies for telling people for f.ck off but my other points still stand. but are also not relevant to this tread given the diplomatic name change...

Wayne, yr princess is way too small, I cant see it? can you repost it bigger? :P

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Austin_Allegro_Brown_1.JPG

thanks Murtle, I was taking the mickey :)

Nope, still too small... nothing bigger?

ok, my contribution:

My favourite car in the world would probably be a tuned-up Karmann Ghia. I would use it on sunny weekends for long drives through our beautiful countryside with my girl.

I also LOVE beetles, fastbacks, split-screen buses and indeed most other cars from that stable. These aren't particularly fast or powerful but modest, beautiful and easily understood/serviced.

I still think that the environmental, visual and noise pollution created by car reliance, particularly in urban areas, is incredibly bent. They have been massively detrimental to the public life of the city. It is very weird to look at old modernist drawings of the utopian 'autoscape' where the car is heralded as the great saviour of the city, providing fast, clean and efficient transport for the masses. The reality has proven entirely different.