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Looks like a collector's item… an investment even

I take it she isn't working for the Mayor's Office

Levi - thanks for the comments. I am in Spain at the minute so that recovery steak might be more useful than usual!!!

if sustrans want to incorage biking then they need to stop giving money to schools only for some headmaster/mistress to miss manage the funds. instead they could look at providing better helmets for kids cos in my experience most helmets for less than £100.00 are hideousely uncomfortable and realy make you sweat after only 100mtrs. i take lots of kids out on bike rides and for most in this deprived area having a bike is a pipe dream ! the kids that have parents that buy there kids a helmet force them to wear these uncomfortable and frankly dubiouse cycle helmets. if these parents had to wear these helmets then the bikes would never get ridden. most helmets dont protect the jaw and lets face facts dentistry is expensive and usually very painfull. if you are unfortunate enough to go over the handle bars then your chin will probably hit first or your temple which i believe to be the toughest part of the skull. beyond this your looking at the sort of damage where internal organs impact the skelleton with such force that a helmet would make little difference anyway. we rap our kids in cotton wool too much and spoil the experience as well as increasing the cost. my eldest boy has just started at a school with a higher offstead report than his last and when i inquired about cycling to school the rep told me that my son needed a cycling profisioncy certificate which i would have to go elsewhere to get and he must wear a helmet despite dumping his first helmet years ago. we ride everywhere usually together and despite failing my cycling proficiancy when the wheel of an army lorry went round next to me aged 12 i currently hold 7 licences and it would appear that the cycling proficiancy was changed or stopped back in 2006 so my boy has little or no chance of meeting this red tape requirement. i wonder if (Danny Mcaskil)free style mtb champ past his cycling proficiancy. the bike holders at this new school are a tripping hazard and now they want my boy to attend on a bike in an attempt to win the funding from sustrans. i feel that if they cannot provide the training to meet these standards then they have no business asking for such certification. if anyone from sustrans is reading this then i would urge you to address these problems instead of giving money to organisations that dont fully understand that red tape needs slashing and cycling needs more incouraging. expensive bike sheds in schools are not the answer as my boys last school has shown. the bike sheds were used more by bullies ! many of the parents had issues with alcohol or medication and perhaps domestic violence too. even if we all rode bikes tomorrow then hospitals a A&E would probably only occasionaly see a cyclist as i feel that seriouse injurys would be rare unless caused by people driving with out due care and attention. basic road safety should be taught in schools as part of the carriculum including the responsibillity for using your brakes and the liabillity if you nock someone down/ over.

Good grief, that finish is dreadful! Pre-production perhaps? Otherwise, good idea. Without a flask full of rum I would surely have died on the sub-zero Glastonbury 100 back in Jan.

I don't normally comment on spelling errors, but did a NYC point at the cars and say "Go away you naughty car."?

and apparently they have sold 38!?

Strange how different companies respond to different people. Saw a sunken cover on my night shift, called it in and by the time I came to ride in the next night Southwest Water had fixed it.

Would like to see some tests and compared against 2010. Models.

Price hike with less spec?

Might as well buy a Spesh etc but these still look good.

Why can't everyone just be sensible. While I cannot agree with Nazi-like demands for everyone to be decked out like a Christmas tree I can see the point of being seen. I have good eyesight (just been tested so I know this to be true) and have often been shocked at people suddenly 'appearing' from nowhere. Numerous times I have only been aware that there was someone walking down the pavement when the reflective strip on their trainers has been picked up as they are in the shadows and all in black. I'm amazed that some cyclists are ever seen, no lights, nothing reflective and all in dark colours, they ride along the pavement when it suits them and then dart into the road.

On the other hand I am a cyclist and detest the fact that cars are seen to be more important than any other road user. I've cycled to Germany and back for charity twice and the difference in how motorists treat cyclists in Holland and Germany really hits home when you land back in Blighty.

Yet another idiot from the moron clone factory?

What Carlton said.

This is just more misinformation and false logic perpetrated by some stooge looking for a little publicity.

Having said that: cycling is perceived by many legislators and cops as a bastion of anarchy. It is seen as a threat to their very existence. A wild thing to be tamed.
Every time there is a critical mass ride, this view is reinforced.
DenDekker (and Clarkson) get a little more support for their nonsensical arguments every time an erratic cyclist causes a big city motorist to spill their coffee or drop their phone.

The best way to resolve this is segregation. Not total, but strategic. Whilst preserving cyclists's universal right to the road.

More cyclists using car free through ways means less motorists will have reason to complain to their representatives; although indignant pedestrians will probably rush in to fill the vacuum.