I’m looking forward to Autumn when all these bikes come back on the market – won’t be long before the traffic increases rapidly and people feel unsafe on the roads. Then it gets cold and wet and dark – and the appeal isn’t so great!
I’m looking at it completely differently, and hoping that this is a sliding doors moment for many of those new cyclists and that they’ll keep it going once we return to whatever normal is, no interested in 2nd hand bargains.
My wife is now cycling the 6 miles through town to the hospital every day, would never have considered it pre-CV19, as the cycle route is a joke and the main road was a scary concept for her. This has given her the confidence of riding on that road, and the slow and steady switching on of traffic levels has meant she’s not noticed a sudden danger. She’s now talking of getting winter kit together, lights, waterproofs etc.
It’s brilliant.