Leeds Headmaster takes to the bicycle....

[wiggydiggy]

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....chool_headteacher_takes_biking_lead_1_4050200

Bit of nice news to read there, and suitable for the beginners section I think!

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Good to see! Lets hope more people in senior positions take some steps to be inspiring to others.

 

[StuartG]

They have just opened a new primary school near my mum. A huge car park and no bicycle stands. I've never seen anybody, pupil or staff, on a bike.

Might be nice if the government would grant biking staff a pay rise equivelent to the cost of providing a parking space. Or started charging for it!

 

[Amanda P]

On the one hand, it's good news.

On the other hand, it's deeply depressing when someone cycles to work and it's sufficiently newsworthy to be in the newspaper.

 

[wiggydiggy]

On the one hand, it's good news.

On the other hand, it's deeply depressing when someone cycles to work and it's sufficiently newsworthy to be in the newspaper.

When you put it like that, it is a bit depressing or maybe its just a bit slow up here lol

 

[Smurfy]

On the one hand, it's good news.

On the other hand, it's deeply depressing when someone cycles to work and it's sufficiently newsworthy to be in the newspaper.

I think exercise is very formalised for many people in th UK. It's something you go to the gym to do, or something that happens when you sign up for xyz sponsored event. Also, I think people regard their method of transport as a status symbol, and part of their image.

 

[Amanda P]

Also, I think people regard their method of transport as a status symbol, and part of their image.

Yes.

When I arrive at work, past the people struggling and squabbling to park their cars as close to their desks as they possibly can, I do rather pity them their inability to get around under their own steam. It must be so limiting!- and it certainly affects how I percieve them. Just perhaps not in the way they imagine!

 

[tmcd35]

I work for a rural high school and we have quite a community of cyclists amongst the staff! Four of us did the Norwich 100 last year and probably will again next. The deputy at another local high school organises a charity C2C ride every year!

I'm often put to shame by a couple of keen colleagues who cycle to work everyday regardless, I'm happy being a fair weather cyclist.

 

[400bhp]

Yes.

When I arrive at work, past the people struggling and squabbling to park their cars as close to their desks as they possibly can, I do rather pity them their inability to get around under their own steam. It must be so limiting!- and it certainly affects how I percieve them. Just perhaps not in the way they imagine!

I don't understand how you can pity them? That seems so pompous.

 

[Amanda P]

I don't understand how you can pity them? That seems so pompous.

It might be pompous if I told them how I feel, but I don't.

What I mean is that they can't seem to break out of a world circumscribed by their cars. For most of them, the outside world is glimpsed only as they rush from the house to the car, and from the car to the office. Their exposure to real weather is kept to the absolute minimum - they park as close as possible to both, even if that means being obstructive or selfish in their efforts to do so. If their cars were to be removed, they'd be helpless and immobile, unable to earn a living or even to feed themselves (I live and work in a rural area).

Don't you find that even a tiny bit pitable?

Don't get me wrong - I have a car and I use it sometimes. But I'm not absolutely dependent on it as so many of my colleagues are.