Drizzle Causes More Fear Than High-Explosives
A forehead-slap-inducing article on the BBC about the surge in bicycle purchases/use around London after the recent bombings. Bike shops were seeing huge increases in sales, and the roads were visibly more bike-clogged at rush hour. All that ended today, and bike-use returned to normal levels, as we had the first rainy day since the bombings.
It wasn’t even raining hard, you wimps! Light drizzle is obviously far more scary than potentially being blown up.
“He said ‘I’m never going on the Tube again. Sell me a bike,’” recalls Travis Lindhe, manager of On Your Bike, where sales have increased from three bikes a day to 15 ever since.
Later, a commenter writes:
“I’ve been riding a motorcycle to work for years. Over the last couple of weeks there has been a noticable increase in the number of cyclists on the roads. However, today it was back to normal. The reason? It’s raining. It seems that people would rather face a cramped, smelly, uncomfortable, and perhaps dangerous, journey on public transport rather than get a little wet.”
Also, unattended announcement board + marker pen = comedy gold:
