In reply to Trevers:
<No shit Sherlock alert>
I'm a dead keen road cyclist, but I've always done it as a pastime/sport/hobby - however I've recently started to live in central Brum during the week, as well as travelling quite a bit to London and other places with work. So I've bought a Brompton - and it's just bloody fab. I've never really used a bike as day to day transport before. I have a shopping basket thingy for it, so I can go to the shops and carry a couple of bags of stuff home, I have a laptop bag for work so I take it on the train to London or wherever and now I never get taxis or the tube (I was always quite a keen Boris Biker in London but I also go to various other places where the default was always train then cab), I go to the pub, I ride to and from the station and the office. I'm amazed by how many 25 minute cab rides are actually 20 minute 3 or 4 mile bike rides. I don't wear a helmet on my Brommie, no lycra, no day-glo - just hop on, go where I'm going and get off again.
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