Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.

[kabbes]

What do you drive? Most cars look pretty interesting these days so don’t be shy.

A 13 year old Fiat Panda and an 11 year-old Skoda Yeti. Neither were purchased as anything other than necessary tools suited to the job they were needed for.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I was chatting to a fella this morning, explaining to me how he spent £3k putting carbon wheels on his motorcycle, to save 6kg. We were at The Super Sausage, and he told me this whilst tucking into the jumbo breakfast. He must've weighed 18st!

Even funnier is people buying carbon bikes with carbon everything. They're always the ones who pretend they're cycling to keep fit and healthy, when a heavy steel bike would obviously be more suitable than a carbon one for this purpose. They're just posers, and you can guarantee each and every one of them has a macbook pro in their backpack.

 

[edcraw]

Even funnier is people buying carbon bikes with carbon everything. They're ways the ones who pretend they're cycling to keep fit and healthy, when a heavy steel bike would obviously be more suitable than a carbon one for this purpose. They're just posers, and you can guarantee each and every one of them has a macbook pro in their backpack.

Thanks for repeating my point and glad you agree about car wankers.

Although aluminium is lighter and cheaper than steel so prob better for most.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Thanks for repeating my point and glad you agree about car wankers.

Although aluminium is lighter and cheaper than steel so prob better for most.

Car drivers pretend they're driving to keep fit and healthy? New one on me.

 

[Athos]

Even funnier is people buying carbon bikes with carbon everything. They're always the ones who pretend they're cycling to keep fit and healthy, when a heavy steel bike would obviously be more suitable than a carbon one for this purpose. They're just posers, and you can guarantee each and every one of them has a macbook pro in their backpack.

Both are nuts. The vehicular equivalent of 'audiophiles' with their £15k speaker cables.

 

[teuchter]

They pretend to themselves that a Porsche or Volvo or range rover is a reflection of their discerning taste or wealth or vitality or whatever while they travel around in a four wheeled monument to the skill of marketing agencies (most likely staffed by people with MacBook pros and carbon fibre road bikes).

 

[Saul Goodman]

Both are nuts. The vehicular equivalent of 'audiophiles' with their £15k speaker cables.

I'd argue that pedalphiles are worse than audiophiles. Audiophiles tend to keep their nonsense confined to their own homes, but pedalphiles spend their fortunes on eye candy that they want everyone to see. It's purely an exercise in vanity and a show of wealth.

 

[platinumsage]

They pretend to themselves that a Porsche or Volvo or range rover is a reflection of their discerning taste or wealth or vitality or whatever while they travel around in a four wheeled monument to the skill of marketing agencies (most likely staffed by people with MacBook pros and carbon fibre road bikes).

I trust your home was acquired, fitted out and decorated in the cheapest, minimum possible fashion as required by cold hard necessity?

 

[Athos]

I'd argue that pedalphiles are worse than audiophiles. Audiophiles tend to keep their nonsense confined to their own homes, but pedalphiles spend their fortunes on eye candy that they want everyone to see. It's purely an exercise in vanity and a show of wealth.

They are exhibitionists. Explains the lycra.

 

[tonysingh]

I was chatting to a fella this morning, explaining to me how he spent £3k putting carbon wheels on his motorcycle, to save 6kg. We were at The Super Sausage, and he told me this whilst tucking into the jumbo breakfast. He must've weighed 18st!

18st? Skinny runt.

 

[maomao]

I'm pretty sure that people that spend several grand on a carbon bike are exactly the same people that'll spend 50k+ on a flash car. IME road cyclists on expensive bikes are usually motorists as well and you'll see very few flash racing bikes doing daily commutes.

 

[platinumsage]

A 13 year old Fiat Panda and an 11 year-old Skoda Yeti. Neither were purchased as anything other than necessary tools suited to the job they were needed for.

Ah I knew you'd be a SUV household.

 

[maomao]

18st? Skinny runt.

Innit. I'm pushing twenty and I'd still outrun most of this lot.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I trust your home was acquired, fitted out and decorated in the cheapest, minimum possible fashion as required cold hard necessity?

I'd hazard a guess that it actually was. I reckon he'd make Victor Meldrew look like a splurging spendthrift.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Innit. I'm pushing twenty and I'd still outrun most of this lot.

I thought you were much younger.

 

[nogojones]

Yes, why do poor people have flat screen tellies?

because they're the only ones you can buy?

 

[teuchter]

I trust your home was acquired, fitted out and decorated in the cheapest, minimum possible fashion as required by cold hard necessity?

Certainly not. Just pointing out that your beloved vehicles are all designed and marketed by people like me in London.

It's pretty funny when you people fall for it and but them to be honest.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Certainly not. Just pointing out that your beloved vehicles are all designed and marketed by people like me in London.

At least you know your place.

 

[cuppa tee]

Always bizarre when people get obsessed with cars.

...the irony in this post is off the Richter scale

 

[Saul Goodman]

...the irony in this post is off the Richter scale

Self-awareness really isn't his thing

 

[Athos]

Innit. I'm pushing twenty and I'd still outrun most of this lot.

To the buffet, maybe.

 

[edcraw]

Anyway, this thread has shown that most of you are just listing after fancy cars and then go and buy a Volvo instead.

 

[platinumsage]

My brand new Volvo wasn’t leased as anything other than a necessary tool suited to the job it was needed for.

 

[Saul Goodman]

My brand new Volvo wasn’t leased as anything other than a necessary tool suited to the job it was needed for.

Same with my 20+ year old Volvo. It serves its purposes. It stops people parking outside my house and it's ridiculously fast. All for less than 2 grand.

 

[edcraw]

This guy’s got a point and Insulate Britain have a much better cause then black cab drivers ever did.

 

[platinumsage]

This guy’s got a point and Insulate Britain have a much better cause then black cab drivers ever did.

Because they blocked Parliament Square, which is the one road that everyone critising Insulate Britain says they should go and block instead.

 

[maomao]

Because they blocked Parliament Square, which is the one road that everyone critising Insulate Britain says the should go and block instead.

They've blocked other roads. I remember one round Waterloo and one round Tottenham Court Rd.

 

[platinumsage]

They've blocked other roads. I remember one round Waterloo and one round Tottenham Court Rd.

Yes they blocked Tottenham Court Road once to protest against it being permanently closed to cars. In this case their protest method aligned perfectly with their aims and highlighted the disruption that closing the road would cause.

 

[maomao]

Yes they blocked Tottenham Court Road once to protest against it being permanently closed to cars. In this case their protest method aligned perfectly with their aims and highlighted the disruption that closing the road would cause.

And no-one demanded that they be run over or locked up.

 

[platinumsage]

And no-one demanded that they be run over or locked up.

A lesson in how to organise a protest that attracts widespread support.