[Albion] Where did the bike sheds go?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Seems like very poor comms by the club. Maybe there could be an email category preference tick box for 'Interested in Amex cycling matters'

 

[LamieRobertson]

Update from supporter services:

Thanks for taking the time to write to us and for raising your concerns.

I have asked our projects team to give more information on the situation with the covered bike rack by the train station, once I hear back I will let you know.

Just to make you aware, there is also a covered bike rack located in the upper tier drop car park (south side).

Great to have a relevant post ..I was toying with putting the thread on ignore ..for those coming up from say Bridge car park tunnel way the remaining covered rack isn’t that convenient/practical

Look forward to more info

Thanks for emailing the club

 

[Skuller]

Oh good, another cycle-wars thread.

 

[£1.99]

Firstly, we don't have good enough road provision for cyclists to have their own space most of the time so they either end up having to share the road with cars, which drivers hate, or they end up sharing the pavement with walkers, which pedestrians hate. Like most things in this country, it's about crumbling old fashioned infrastructure.

There is also a pretentious subculture of cyclists here that I don't think has quite translated to Europe in the same way (in that they, from my experience, seem to have been self-confined to cycling as a hobby and not as a means of transport). The centrist-dad NIMBY Bradley Wiggins wannabes who buy all of the thousands of pounds of gear and live on the highest of horses (with two wheels). The reality is that in London everyone uses either the TFL or Lime Bikes and no one has an issue with that for the most part, it's the stereotype outlined above that causes the knee jerk anger.

And to be fair, it is some of the wankiest most annoying shit - imagine sitting in the office, going through your emails and some bloke is getting unwrapped from his Rapha lycra and bike shoes that he has to wear to signal to everyone that he's a real cyclist on the desk next to you.

Still, Vermin is a pretty far jump off from that, imo, valid annoyance,

I now cycle to all the home games and out of the 100 or so cyclists that do the the same I've yet to see one fitting this description!