Goodbye Toronto's Bike Culture

We're in Europe after all, if we were to look for inspiration, we'd look at the Netherlands, not the Aussie.

...........expecting every Met copper to look for your bike because "it's the only Bert Scroggins track frame sprayed metallic purple in the whole of London" is actually a bit much. To most police, a bike is just a bike.........

...this is the case with cars mostly as well, you report and they generally wait for someone to find it.

you have to think of the lebowksi scene with cheech as the officer lebowski says..''you have any leads? and the officer laughs his head off...

Agreed with mostly every thing you said...and tynan too...though if you wanna where a hat..it should be your option as to whether you do, we base these reactions to the amount of people killing people because they are smoking, texting, late, pissed off...or just not paying fucking attention in a 1200kg piece of metal with inertia problems...

though another factor in helmet use is probably that they are sold with new bikes from halfords? and also madam...would you like to see these new shiny helmets? (see other post by mitretester) they are far more likely to be had/bought by an inexperienced rider...rather than someone that has been riding for 10 years...and is a really quite skilled and road aware?

if you asked me if I wanted a new helmet...I would say no initially, as I have been riding for god knows how long...and like to live vicariously.

secondly places that did have less cars (...ie india and thailand spring to mind) had never had traffic gridlock problems until recently...they just had thousands of bikes deilvering everything conceivable at a reasonable pace and everyone had to be a little more considerate, to move, to think a little more, take another route, go on the pavement for little while, cut through the housing estate, walk a staircase, knowing that if you do crash and it is/isn't your fault you will still likely fuck up your head/elbow/ankle/pretty arse and they generallty take on a little forward thinking and responsibility...you stick someone in a seat with a heater, music, a box of fags, a phone, some sweets, and they will fucking sit there til the cows come home rather than eleviate the problem/boredom.

^^ Tom Waits

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