Tuesday 15 July 2008

Sign of the times 4

It may just be a small sample, but in the bike shop yesterday the bikes seemed to be flying off the shelf. I have no idea how many they sell in a week - but at 6.30 on a Monday there were two bike sales being completed. And at the Hyde Park corner crossing this evening there seemed to be a lot of gleaming Ridgebacks and Giants on show.

I tried to check up on what was happening on the ONS website. But looking at road transport just gave me a lot of car data - ONS don't seem to use anything else -- and the latest cycle data I could find finished in 2001.

Stories from the US of soaring bike sales as SUVs become a thing of the past. I wonder what the hard data is here.

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