I had an electric bike before. They are pretty heavy – but nifty little feckers. Get about 20mph out of them. Is the Government still doing the cycle to work scheme for a free bike?

As a person who used to cycle to work almost every day for 8 years I can tell you it doesn’t actually rain all that much, generally speaking the road is wet alot due to rain overnight but I’d rarely need all my rain gear unless it was lashing going to/from work.

Of course then I had to drive to work for 4 years so that ruined that experience as the distance increased to 50km each way, though i cycled that once or twice just to see if I could :)

Are you made of sugar? Would you melt if you cycle in the rain? :-P
Would you believe it rains more in the Netherlands then it does in Ireland!

More anti cycling comments eh?nnOf course leaflets would be much better suited for all the motorists that….nn-drive on footpathsn-park on footpathsn-speed up and don’t give right of way to people crossingn-speed in generaln-don’t know how to use overtaking lanes on motorways (they are not fast lanes!)n-park in the useless illplanned cycle lanes that do existn-don’t know how to use roundaboutsn-don’t know how to use yellowboxesn-overtake dangerouslyn-drive on hard shouldersn-undertake other motoristsn-don’t know how to merge with existing traffic on motorwaysn- don’t pay for insurancen-don’t pay their MOTOR taxn-don’t allow proper amount of safe space when overtaking cyclistn-think they have more rights to the road then other road usersnnAnd the list of course goes on…..nnof course the difference between a cyclist and a motorist is a motorist is driving a large metal box that can very easily kill or injure people.

Hmmmm Thejournal.ie is acting odd this evening, not only has it mixed up my avatar its messed up the formatting off my last post

You should be supporting this stuff if you had any sense,

More people cycling means less people sitting in a car which takes up far far more room then any bike, less pollution, less congestion and less traffic. Oh and not to mention healthier people so less costs to the HSE etc,

Perfect example of why getting more people on bikes is a good thing, here’s a handy car v bus v bike comparison for just 60 people

http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/fotos/transportation9744_n.jpg