On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:39:49 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 06/10/2017 04:42 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
My car will go 120mph and get me across the country in a matter of
hours. How fast will your bicycle go?

how fast will your 120 mph chariot get you across London or some other
large city? When I lived in Boston (ours) a bike was faster than a car
or public transportation. For that matter, walking was faster than the
subway in the off hours.

I avoid built up areas, I have no idea why people want to live there.

And the London Underground gets you anywhere you want very quickly indeed. You wait no more than 2 minutes and a train appears, then takes you to any part of London very quickly indeed.

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