Crack opinion-chucker Andrew Grimes has written a truly spectacularly ridiculous article entitled 'Why the bicycle has no place on our city roads' for the Manchester Evening News. It's a really odd peice filled with rubbish really. I'm wondering how many cyclists who work at the MEN are going to read it too? Maybe they can do me a favour and pop an old dog poo in his desk drawer or something...what a plum...
Anyway, my reply to his post in case the 'moderators' don't allow it:
"Fabulous article, I really loved it!
This morning I cycled in to work and, as it's Friday, I was feeling a bit tired. I sat down at my desk with a cup of coffee—not clad in yellow mind—and read with interest your article. So, thank you. Thank you for cheering up my day. It's by reading ill-informed, ignorant, idiotic vomits of opinion that really make me smile on a cold winter day such as today.Frankly I can't even start to pick apart your 'arguments' as they're simply ignorant, baseless opinion. Instead I take solace in the fact that you're absolutely and fundamentally wrong. You really have no understanding of the environmental and social impact of too much vehicular traffic and you make an absolutely perverted and disgusting point about cyclists deaths.Please stick to ranting about stuff to your friends in future rather than typing stuff like this. As a head start here are some options for you to have ill-informed ideas about: immigration, how 'the left' are ruining this country, benefit scroungers and that Snickers should still be called Marathon."