Communist cycle lanes

Neil here, the guy in charge of Kingston Wheelers visual identity. That poster was sent out without my approval. When I found out about it I was not happy. I’m a professional animator and designer with a zero tolerance approach to AI slop. It never appeared on our official channels, and one were to look at our IG feed, it should be obvious that we promote good design. It was too late to stop it as it had been shared by the local ‘cross leagues already by the time I found out about it. We take great care on how we present ourselves. Currently we are working with an external brand agency on our upcoming rebrand and new website, for example. I myself have designed many event posters over the years and we’ve worked with some very talented illustrators, designers and photographers. It’s been communicated to the members that no AI is to be used for anything that could be construed as club communication. I do wish Jo had reached out for comment before publishing this as it makes us look lazy and generic. I hope you are going to correct the record, Jo? Best wishes, Neil Grunshaw

@mdavidford friends, romans, countrymen: lend me your cars. A typo in copies of Julius Caesar has persisted since 1831, but is clearly incorrect since organs can be donated but not returned.

Police suggesting that hi-viz should be worn by cyclists so that drivers can see them is clearly taken from first hand experience.

@chrisonabike Thousands of years - since the Romans. Cycle lanes would completely ruin the car-acter of the place.

@brogs I disagree with the tone of your comment. Read up on motornormativity.

@Podc Missing the point. I don't burn through petrol when driving out of cyclist-hating UK to much more cyclist-welcoming Europe, purely for environmental reasons, and then push runners out of the way and shout at them, on 'my' path. What is happening is carbrain disease. Drive to parkrun, get out of entitlement box, continue run with carbrain on. What is 'needed' is some shocking vehicle close passes of runners from drivers, to bring runners up to speed with the carbrain disease.

So making cycling accessible in this park is implied to be a good idea… but doing similar for a park in Bath is not? Hum…

@chrisonabike Especially not ones that work out about £50,000 a body...

@antigee I think you'll find cars have been there and hence "in keeping" for hundreds of years (is this right? Anyway, well before 2000...) While cycling is obviously a very recent phenomenon, willed in to being by these woke councils...

@mitsky as someone who pays attention to language, isn't it that "bad cyclist" actually carries a moral tone? More like "evil cyclist"? (Obviously some people would say that's an oxymoron).