Tenuous I know, but given that my facebook feed is currently full of people posting all kinds of political propaganda, a lot of it very left wing, and a huge proportion of my friends are cyclists, I started drawing some parallels…
One of which is that all of my outwardly left wing cyclist friends were all in the “26 til I die” category (the irony that most now ride 650b bikes as there’s barely any new 26″ bikes made is not lost on me). Each one of them I have heard at times continually deride 29ers, calling them and their riders many derogatory terms, and exclaiming that they would never be seen dead on one (the same as they would never vote Tory)…
So… If your Dad was a coal miner or he worked for British Leyland, does that mean it’s intrinsically built into you that you have to hate 29ers? Are there any socialist 29er riders out there? Do we have any free thinking liberals that won’t part with their 26″ wheeled bike?
And as for the roadies… Where do they come in?!?!
***Post MAY contain some irony and a sense of frustration at the number of wannabe politicians that come out of the woodwork every election time.