Originally Posted by Pobble.808

This may be reading a little too much into it, but Thatcher did say "bus," not "public trans" or "train" or bike," and my sense is that even among us open-minded BF folk there are some who see the bus as a distinct step down from all other transportation modes (except maybe SUVs ) -- various comments over the years about how buses have too many smelly / noisy/ wacko people. So maybe Thatcher would cut cyclists and train riders a little more slack, for whatver that's worth, which probably isn't much.

Be that as it may, last week I saw a movie, "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," about the revered proprietor of what is supposed to be Tokyo's top sushi restaurant, where dinner starts at $375 a pop, and it showed him riding the train to work every day. His 50-something son and heir apparent does the daily supply run to pick up fish from the wholesale market -- and carries it back to the restaurant on the rack of his (rod-brake-equipped) bike. Hard to imagine anything like this happening at a top flight restaurant in Manhattan or San Fran!