Cycling is Sexist and Racist

[Gunge]

Just looked on eBay for a waffen ss tour de Europe cycling jacket ...nowt doing.

But if want an actual bike, there's hundreds of the buggers strapped to trees / fences etc etc around here - decor for the utterly pathetic Tour de bleedin' Yorkshire which they couldn't be arsed to remove after the event. Why haven't these vandals been busted for littering?

 

[Clint]

Collect and sell on flea bay..

 

[GerritT]

Some sweeping generalisations there.

As good as the gouvernment makes them.

 

[ElvisIsBeer]

I suppose one way of looking at it is to think about the virtues of participation. Cycling is 100% a brilliant means to get around, and more does need to be done to make it safer and more accessible for everyone.

Once we have that tucked away as a reasonable objective, we can look at participation rates from different groups within society, to help understand why some sections aren't buying in. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Then we're into analysis and venn diagram territory, some of which might lead us to conclude that some sections of society don't access a virtuous utility, service, system or opportunity for specific reasons - some of which it might be easy to try and do something about.

The virtuous purpose is there throughout, like Blackpool through a stick of rock. So what's the beef with inclusive cycling? Are people bothered about disabled cyclists, elderly cyclists?

Just the black ones then?

 

[ElvisIsBeer]

There really are some unpleasant undertones to this thread (and others previously).

 

[Clint]

Well the title sets the scene really...I didn't expect to read anything about fishing or cooking...it was as I thought .... base line nonsense to which there would be replies of the same.
Talking if fishing I can't say I've met more than a handful of black anglers in 40 years as for any other such as Indian,Pakistani absolutely none.
Perhaps fishing falls the "same"? Or perhaps it's a culture thing?

 

[Thumper]

I suspect Khan's problem is not so much that "cycling is racist", but that he wants Londoners to cycle and no one other than middle class white men seem to be doing so.

 

[Clint]

Ah perhaps then the question may be...why are more middle class white men cycling in London than ethnic groups?

 

[MyQul]

I have now locked this thread as the thread has gone the way they seem to go here in the snug as a number of posts (which I have removed) have clearly contravened forum rules