Usually your posts are quite interesting but this one is just you being a dick.
Correct.
Usually you're completely cool - probably one of the best posters on here by my reckoning.
But if i could count on my hands the amount of times you have poured scorn upon the very idea of people cycling - ooo i can't carry all the things i need to carry ooo there are really big hills ooo there sounds like there is an owl close by so i couldn't possibly ride a bicycle because what would the neighbours think? - i would probably be counting on three to four fingers.
If you would like to push this, i'm more than happy to carry on being a dick by proving my point and scouring the archives...
I'll say again - every now and then i feel like it's appropriate to remind people that the humble bicycle is a more than adequate means of transport for most of the inhabitants of Stafford.
Because quite often the poor travellers of Stafford, caught between the Rock of Junction 13 and the Hard Place of Junction 14, find themselves sitting in their cars for an hour, when a ten minute cycle ride would have done the do.
Topographically, Stafford is 'pretty much flat', though obviously we must make allowances for Baswich - until recently it was not known that this is the only housing estate designed by Escher, and it is, as far as we know, the only place on Earth that both ingress and egress are upward - and we must also allow for the fact that when travelling from the Queensville roundabout to Baswich,
@RobUSA seems to think that we must first ride over the railway bridge, cross over the road, and ride back over the railway bridge again, before our haul toward the top of Radford Bank, the dramatic upward trajectory of which has now magically started at the roundabout rather than just after the Trumpet.
We could digress further, and include Castle Bank, Kingston Hill, and the hill that the Hospital is on to further discredit the general hypothesis that all of the rest of Stafford is 'pretty much flat', but it wouldn't really do much to dent the general feeling that, if you think about where most of the people in Stafford live, Stafford is 'pretty much flat'.
Ultimately, if you
want to keep driving into town, and when the M6 is banjaxed finding yourself being stuck in your tin-can for the next hour (for what should be a ten minute journey), crawling ever closer to your overpriced parking spot, knock yourself the f**k out. I'm just saying there's an alternative.