Are Londoners Better Cyclists?

[SimonC]

Whenever you see studies on the worlds worst trafficked cities i never see any of the ones you mentioned, yet London is always up there. They are not even close to being as bad. Excluding Liverpool, London is also the most densely populated out of the ones you listed.

I think Londoners are also in better shape in general so it would stand to reason there would be better cyclists.

As opposed to us fat Northerners who live on pies, chips and whippets? Idiot.

 

[I am Spartacus]

I have never eaten a whippet in my life... knowingly

 

[SimonC]

I have never eaten a whippet in my life... knowingly

Not much meat on them, bit stringy.

 

[Landslide]

Well speed is top of my priority list not safety...

Chris Hoy - hails from Edinburgh.
Mark Cavendish - Isle of Man, talks like a Scouser.

I can therefore irrefutably state that London cyclists are worse.

 

[blazed]

As opposed to us fat Northerners who live on pies, chips and whippets? Idiot.

I dont care what you live on but the statistics are available to back up what i said. Heres one example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3521551.stm

 

[I am Spartacus]

If you tell us all about how good life is down there, you run the risk of us all squatting on your front lawn........ yawn.................

 

[gaz]

Chris Hoy - hails from Edinburgh.
Mark Cavendish - Isle of Man, talks like a Scouser.

I can therefore irrefutably state that London cyclists are worse.

bradley wiggins? thats right, herne hill in london is where he cycled.

 

[SimonC]

I dont care what you live on but the statistics are available to back up what i said. Heres one example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3521551.stm

I dont care what statistics you care to quote, you are still a tosser.

 

[Landslide]

bradley wiggins? thats right, herne hill in london is where he cycled.

Not as fast though is he?

 

[Dan B]

Not as fast though is he?

He probably has a fair way to go before he can legitimately claim to beat the piranha on the road

 

[summerdays]

I dont care what you live on but the statistics are available to back up what i said. Heres one example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3521551.stm

Again - there are plenty of cyclists on here who aren't built like a whippet and still are good cyclists who may or may not live in London.

 

[Landslide]

Hmm, do fast swimmers make better cyclists? Memo to self: Don't get involved in commuter races with Michael Phelps...

 

[swee'pea99]

Obviously it's a question-begging question. 'Better' involves a wide range of variables, as against, say, 'faster', which involves only one. I'd say London cyclists are better London-cyclists, which is to say only that someone from Warrington, even if a 'good' cyclist, might find London a bit bewildering at first. The city presents its own unique combination of challenges. But as to whether Londoners are better in any broader sense than that, it seems unlikely.

 

[blazed]

He probably has a fair way to go before he can legitimately claim to beat the piranha on the road

This is true.

I dont care what statistics you care to quote, you are still a tosser.

So is this.

 

[theclaud]

This is true.

So is this.

Aren't piranhas pretty useless on the road? Still, it beats the previous sig line...