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The Sunday Times cottons on to gravel biking.

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 PJay
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It's new apparently.

I don't read newspapers, but this popped up in a newsfeed.

It's a Sunday Times article extolling the virtues of gravel biking if anyone fancies a read.

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/gravel-bike-cycle-scotland-lake-district-r8gn39zsh


 
Posted : 20/10/2024 12:38 pm
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Is that because they don't think bikes belong on the road?

Second paragraph...

radicalised road riders with their Lycra-clad machismo;


 
Posted : 20/10/2024 12:57 pm
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From £2600 pp for 6 nights b&b and 5 days on a fire road!

Blimey.


 
Posted : 20/10/2024 2:20 pm
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From £2600 pp for 6 nights b&b and 5 days on a fire road!

Plus a guide, researched & prepped route, support van and snacks etc.

For some folk without the navigation skills or confidence, this is great.


 
Posted : 20/10/2024 2:22 pm
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Is that because they don’t think bikes belong on the road?

Second paragraph…

Baby steps, it's only a few years since they were openly inviting readers to murder people riding bikes.


 
Posted : 20/10/2024 5:39 pm
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Baby steps, it’s only a few years since they were openly inviting readers to murder people riding bikes.

And yet a few years before that, they were running a genuinely good campaign, Cities Safe For Cycling. Which came about after one of their journalists was run over and very seriously injured more or less outside The Times offices.

The article is here, it's not paywalled:

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/gravel-bike-cycle-scotland-lake-district-r8gn39zsh


 
Posted : 20/10/2024 6:45 pm
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