Comments on: Cycle Hire http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/ Dummies For Destruction - A drop of blood in a sea of piss Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-165239 Jon Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:54:17 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6337#comment-165239 'Windy' barely covers The Blackpool Experience. I was at a conference there once, walked around the corner outside my hotel, and my glasses were just blown off, never to be seen again. Can't imagine wanting to risk cycling along and being blown into the path of an oncoming tram. ‘Windy’ barely covers The Blackpool Experience. I was at a conference there once, walked around the corner outside my hotel, and my glasses were just blown off, never to be seen again.

Can’t imagine wanting to risk cycling along and being blown into the path of an oncoming tram.

]]> By: lyle http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-165236 lyle Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:13:08 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6337#comment-165236 Yeah, and I can imagine on Venice beach it's quite nice. From what I've seen of it, Venice Beach can be summed up as Sunny Flat Warm Not massively windy British seaside destinations, however - and particularly the more Northern ones - don't regularly qualify on any of those counts. Cycling on a sunny day in California and a windy day in Blackpool are experiences that are worlds apart in every quantifiable measure, so far as I can see... Yeah, and I can imagine on Venice beach it’s quite nice. From what I’ve seen of it, Venice Beach can be summed up as

Sunny
Flat
Warm
Not massively windy

British seaside destinations, however – and particularly the more Northern ones – don’t regularly qualify on any of those counts.

Cycling on a sunny day in California and a windy day in Blackpool are experiences that are worlds apart in every quantifiable measure, so far as I can see…

]]> By: Chris http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-165234 Chris Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:19 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6337#comment-165234 I hired a bike once at Venice beach in California, and I have to say we had a great time. (Was bought up in Blackpool and left when 18 and would never ever go there again under my own steam.) I hired a bike once at Venice beach in California, and I have to say we had a great time.

(Was bought up in Blackpool and left when 18 and would never ever go there again under my own steam.)

]]> By: lyle http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-165233 lyle Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:46:12 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6337#comment-165233 No disrespect, BW, but you're hardly the average tourist target-market. Like I said, there's plenty of tourist bikes available in Oxford and Cambridge, cycle-hire etc., but they're rarely used by tourists. Students use them, as do longer-term visitors (i.e. the language schools etc.) so there's a business case for them, but the tourists either use buses, cars, or feet. Not bikes. No disrespect, BW, but you’re hardly the average tourist target-market.

Like I said, there’s plenty of tourist bikes available in Oxford and Cambridge, cycle-hire etc., but they’re rarely used by tourists. Students use them, as do longer-term visitors (i.e. the language schools etc.) so there’s a business case for them, but the tourists either use buses, cars, or feet. Not bikes.

]]> By: Blue Witch http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-165227 Blue Witch Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:49:19 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6337#comment-165227 You have comment spam... I'd posit that tourits don't cycle because they have no bikes; give them access to them and they might. I would... Blackpool is the new Brighton btw. You have comment spam…

I’d posit that tourits don’t cycle because they have no bikes; give them access to them and they might. I would…

Blackpool is the new Brighton btw.

]]> By: wedding photographer essex http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/09/cycle-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-165226 wedding photographer essex Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:08:51 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6337#comment-165226 To be honest who would like to go to Blackpool anyway? It's so cold even in summer. If you have to go anywhere in the UK then its usually better off to have a holiday down south as at least it will be a degree warmer! To be honest who would like to go to Blackpool anyway? It’s so cold even in summer. If you have to go anywhere in the UK then its usually better off to have a holiday down south as at least it will be a degree warmer!

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