The Bike Show spends an entertaining hour with Bill Chidley, disecting the Evening Standards Dodecalogue to Make London Safer for Riders, a pivotal moment in the history of London cycling politics.
As a matter of record here are other endorsement of cycling by mainstream media this past week:
- AA Gill in The Sunday Times
- Harry Eyres in the Financial Times
- Richard Hammond in GQ
Best aside (42:30 in) is Jack’s diatribe against fixed wheels, termed as ‘sartorially incompetent’, the picture above being a pleasant exception. As the NYTimes reports that “fixed-gear bikes are being ridden all over New York, by … lawyers, accountants and college professors”, surely the fad of being a fakenger is on its last lap.
For sartorially competent bicycles, look no further than our collection of Biomega‘s: internal gears and brakes and no chain.
And for a sartorially competent London, put a big red cross on Midsummer Night.
My god! Now I know I’m still in the land of dreams: the moronic, hamster faced Top Gear presenter supports cycling! As do the major tabloids, apparently. Not sure I can handle all this nefarious back patting. Whatever happened to the good old days of being public enemy number one to a hundred?
Nice photo by the way; what a vision of she beauty is…What a lucky girl.
That’s my favourite kind of track stand – grabbing hold of a railing!
You wouldn’t happen to have her telephone number laying about there?
“can’t we all just get along?” ;^)
Nice photo, but I liked the woman in the office two posts ago even better.
Are there any others reading this who get tired of the same old song, men as the tough, weathered hero and women as the dainty, “vision of beauty”? Come on. Gender roles are boring.
Yep. I’m with you Cody.
Ho hum… The ‘vision of she beauty’ I was drunkenly referring to in my original post was the Gios… Besides, what’s so wrong with men finding such a beautiful creature so worthy of their lust?
Actually, now you mention it, the girl’s not bad either
i check this ite all the time
usually i love it
also been thinking about investing in a serious bike from velorution
but tyat’s really basic sexist rubbish on your site right now, the photo and the comment. i’m appalled.
everyone goes on about less women cycling than men, and about sexist culture of cycling. i’d have thought a cool london shop was on the progressive side.
VERY DISAPPOINTED
At present I would rather watch Top Gear than read your blog. This image is sexually procative, and insulting to your female audience, and quite offensive. And the level of debate is low and lurid. I bought into the concept of this shop and helped focus the emphasis upon what was truely lacking in the retail market ‘ a friendly, knowledgable shop in central London, focusing upon the needs of women, Mothers and families’- and what are you doing pinning such images up? ‘ghost images of girlfriends of the past too’? Is this what you call work, and is this why you are staying out until 2.00 in the morning? So now you have upset your wife in the process too………….well done Andrea, you really have lost your way and your blog is just dribble at present, and soon the Velorution will be over! at home too! Mrs Casalotti
Mrs C, why should a bike store focus on the needs of women, mothers and families? Why can’t it just focus on *anyone who wants to cycle*, regardless of sex? Your entirely unnecessary gender bias is exclusionary and fascist. Drop it.
Can we have some more sexually provocative images please, preferably with people rather than just bikes. Don’t knock Top Gear, it’s funny. I’ll definitely pay the shop a visit.
Mandatory cycling tests!!! No way, why do they always want to get so restrictive.
cheers
Chris
[...] I could go on but you get the point. I’ve never considered myself, nor any of the above examples sexist. Perhaps mildly obsessive about cute girls on bikes, but not offensive to women. There was a recent post at Velorution that sparked some rather heated comments. The photo accompanying the post pictures one of the female persuasion atop a track bike. Personally I found nothing offensive about the photo or the post, in fact I queried about the 10 digits of said female cyclist. [...]
Yeah but only a woman can ride a bike in their briefs!