Class prejudice using cycling as an excuse!
She forgets Brad Wiggins grew up in a local authority flat in North London…
What’s class got to do with the price of fish?
I said it in one of the previous one of these threads, cycling is seen as a “Lefty” activity somehow, it’s image being tied up with “eco-credentials” and the apparently un-self conscious wearing of “day-glo spandex” meaning that if you want a group to pick on, and your readership are broadly speaking right wing in their views, you can’t go far wrong with people on bikes, they neatly embody all sorts of prejudices… Hence these articles make ideal click bait but have no real baring on any real debate.
Of course I still don’t believe road cycling safety is or should be a political issue, in so much as it’s not really a debatable concept; safer roads with fewer dead or injured cyclists would be a good thing, end of the debate, now how do we achieve such a Nirvana?