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Making Cycling Strange

  • 06-10-2009 10:32AM
    #1
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,967 ✭✭✭✭


    Very interesting series on the culture of Fear and cycling over on copenhagenize.com, as someone posted before. The concluding part is up today, and it's quite interesting in how it dissects why the media portrays cyclists so negatively.

    http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/10/fear-of-cycling-05-making-cycling.html

    This quote is quite funny, somehow:
    So my argument is not only that a fear of cycling is produced by varied attempts to make cycling safer, but also that a fear of the cyclist is related to people's anxieties that they, too, might end up taking to cycling, and becoming a 'cyclist'.
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