The Flying Scot
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North Queensferry Scotland and London (and France)
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Bikes: Custom (Colin Laing) 531c fast tourer/audax, 1964 Flying Scot Continental, 1995 Cinelli Supercorsa, Holdsworth Mistral single speed, Dahon Speed 6 (folder), Micmo Sirocco and a few more
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I also ride a fairly powerful (100HP) motorbike. My mother (and I'm 41!) refuses to acknowledge it's existence most of the time, but when she does it's to tell me not to ride it! "It's too dangerous". However, she doesn't get worked up about me cycling to work.
Go figure. I wear about £1000 of armoured protective gear and a £300 helmet when filtering through traffic at 20 mph on my Honda, and a Giro Helmet and some chamois and lycra when filtering through traffic at 20 mph on my bicycle..
The moral is that it's just people's perception. The only thing that makes cycling dangerous is the motor car and the unobservant impatient aggresive people who drive them.
Last year 1800 miles on the VFR, 4000+ miles on the bicycle!!
I know what my priorities are.
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plus je vois les hommes, plus j'admire les chiens
1985 Sandy Gilchrist-Colin Laing built 531c Audax/fast tourer.
1964 Flying Scot Continental (531)
1995 Cinelli Supercorsa (Columbus SLX)
1980s Holdsworth Mistral fixed (531)
2005 Dahon Speed 6 (folder)
(YES I LIKE STEEL)
2008 Viking Saratoga tandem
2008 Micmo Sirocco Hybrid (aluminium!)
2012 BTwin Rockrider 8.1