Great Budworth and 'Lycra louts'

[Robert5091]

http://www.executivestyle.com.au/gr...-says-it-has-had-enough-of-lycra-louts-gqauim
The road to the English village of Great Budworth winds gently across the Cheshire Plain, passing farms, fields and impossibly pretty red-brick cottages. On the approach, the sandstone spire of the village's 700-year-old church rises up over the landscape.

The picturesque scene is among the finest in England, but one I pedal towards with some trepidation. For not only am I on a racing bike but also dressed in Lycra. If reports are to be believed, around these parts that makes me persona non grata.

Great Budworth has become the latest place in England to declare war on so-called "Lycra Louts", the modern-day scourge of weekend cyclists buzzing like drones down country lanes and haring through towns and villages at speeds of up to 60km/h.

More on an Australian cycling in England at -

http://www.executivestyle.com.au/gr...-says-it-has-had-enough-of-lycra-louts-gqauim

 

[kwikki]

It's just another example of the drip feed of anti-cycling rhetoric written by an anti-cyclist that generates, reinforces and perpetuates dishonest stereotypes.

Take this section:

"These are the portly executives in skin suits and mirrored sunglasses who hare down country lanes on £10,000 carbon racers, often several abreast, with scant regard for anything and anyone in their way."

Consider the messages implicit in that. Most of them arent about cycling

In other news, car drivers kill hundreds of pedestrians every year.

Cyclists kill one every 5 years.

 

[Robert5091]

I don't seem to remember any such newspaper articles from the time before Sky's success.