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  • @GeoffBuysCars
    @GeoffBuysCars  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    do make sure you are subscribed, people are saying they are unsubscribed and didn't realise... also, just check the channel for new content, i'm always filming and uploading even if you aren't getting notifications...

    • @fredfred2363
      @fredfred2363 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's not the subs, it's the notifications aren't working. Quite a few channels actually.

    • @emk-69
      @emk-69 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There was an advert on tv a year or so ago talking about how , families shouldn't have to afford to keep changing bicycles for their growing children when they can HIRE instead! "You will own nothing...." sprung to mind. Just like John Lewis and their Clothes Hiring scheme!!! Companies clearly get ticked boxes for being pc/woke... we need to start calling these businesses out.

    • @terryhoath1983
      @terryhoath1983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Geoff, yesterday, I read on two platforms of Renfe (Spanish Railways) the Spanish equivalent of "For safety reasons, from 12 December 2023 onwards, passengers will not be allowed to board the train with electric scooters, unicycles or similar vehicles." Apparently the full notice in translation should read "For safety reasons, from 12 December 2023 onwards, passengers will not be allowed to board the train with electric scooters, unicycles or similar vehicles. This does not apply to vehicles for people with reduced mobility, or to electric bicycles", but the final sentence was not on the notices that I read. I don't know how many people with "reduced mobility" that you have seen on unicycles recently but I haven't seen ANY.
      As for sales of bicycles falling, maybe, it is a bit like electric cars .... those who want one have already got one. Bikes, unlike electric cars, are not exactly disposable items. As for the fall in sales of gizmos, there are only so many people who want to wear an ECG machine when out for a ride.

    • @eyesodd
      @eyesodd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@terryhoath1983Electric scooters are already banned on UK trains, the screen tells you so, due to "known safety risks".

    • @helmethead72
      @helmethead72 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The High Peak and Tissington Trails are two genuinely wonderful places to ride a bike as a family. Beautiful scenery, no cars, wonderful pubs and cafes to enjoy afterwards. Head for either Buxton, Ashbourne or Matlock Bath to find a good starting point!

  • @Jonny_The_Organism
    @Jonny_The_Organism 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +283

    Mary had a beautiful bike.....it was robbed.... now parked outside a four or five star hotel somewhere....

    • @tafrog5552
      @tafrog5552 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      mary had a little bike it went to fund ...... they sold it for a new coat then bring it right back to you ....

    • @Eric_Hunt194
      @Eric_Hunt194 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Mary had a little lamb, she also had a bike
      The lamb is now a doner kebab, being delivered on that bike

    • @davidkettell1073
      @davidkettell1073 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Along with a lock belonging to an illegal immigrant.

    • @ArnoGraf-u9f
      @ArnoGraf-u9f 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I hope you're not implying that members of the " religion of peace "have borrowed it

    • @Jonny_The_Organism
      @Jonny_The_Organism 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ArnoGraf-u9f only on a permanently non refundable basis...may be...

  • @PeterCox-k1w
    @PeterCox-k1w 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +219

    I buy f all these days, no longer interested, becoming reclusive and don't give a sh...t

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      same here, bit of good grub is about the height of it.

    • @NiceLoki
      @NiceLoki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Ditto

    • @UnacceptablePhil
      @UnacceptablePhil 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same. The muggles (brain dead jabberwockies who refuse to think) can go one way and we’ll go the other.

    • @Journey_to_who_knows
      @Journey_to_who_knows 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Same but I’m not even 35 yet which makes it pathetic

    • @Asewitt
      @Asewitt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Reducing your consumption is good for you and the environments. It’s bad for corps and gov so even better!

  • @Barbarapape
    @Barbarapape 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    The sales of most goods are down, bikes are just another item that people can't afford.
    Heat or Eat is now a reality that more people are having to face.

    • @NiceLoki
      @NiceLoki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      In my case can't fix the shower so I might be able to pay to get my ancient car through the MOT.

    • @Barbarapape
      @Barbarapape 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@NiceLoki I hope it passes, you don't want a modern car that costs a fortune to repair.

    • @NiceLoki
      @NiceLoki 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Barbarapape I agree. Although they are utterly slaying me with the road tax costs.
      Fucking bastards.

    • @gmc9451
      @gmc9451 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mid-range restaurants and pub grub establishments are packed. But then again they tend to be an older clientele.

    • @Barbarapape
      @Barbarapape 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gmc9451 They are probably the first of the "Baby Boomer" generation with good pensions.
      The rest of us are and never will be that well off, final salary pensions have long gone.

  • @nicksundby
    @nicksundby 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +291

    Can't wait to buy a budget bike for £600 and break my neck on a pothole.

    • @iandavies9154
      @iandavies9154 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Totally agree, 3 bikes in the garage but too dangerous to ride around my area due to potholes. Saw one pothole that had almost swallowed a large traffic cone the other day.

    • @VelEire_
      @VelEire_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Has happened here in Ireland
      Ebike at 25km/h hit a pothole broke the front wheel rider died of brain damage insurance wouldn’t pay out brought family through court because it was bought online from another country. Cheap cars are far more fun

    • @geoffnorton9279
      @geoffnorton9279 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Safer to get an off road bike mate. Avoid the roads, or use the pavements.

    • @angelh5762
      @angelh5762 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅

    • @netthawk5635
      @netthawk5635 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Brilliant 😂

  • @huffmanaviation7341
    @huffmanaviation7341 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +320

    The police wont even look for a stolen 2 thousand pound bike....... so to invest in one would be foolish in the extreme.

    • @terryhoath1983
      @terryhoath1983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Other than persecuting innocent motorists, the police don't do very much at all, do they.

    • @doghous3
      @doghous3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      100%, been like that for decades. Never ever leave/store a push-bike outside.

    • @lyndareynolds850
      @lyndareynolds850 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      How bout this? We had 2k bike stolen, I watched them out my window - 3 men, I rang police with description. Their reply - you reported 3 men. One man will separate immediately, so then 2 men pushing stolen bike. You reported 3. Therefore we can't arrest them even if we see them because you said three. And this is a known tactic of bike thieves. So, there is no point us even going looking. Even though it was middle of night, they cd have been found easily. And this is why they didn't even go look.

    • @PeteLogan101
      @PeteLogan101 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      2 years ago someone gave me some advice, make sure you have two bikes. One bike for nipping down the shops ect, if I get stolen not the end of the world... Your second bike is your expensive bike and that, is never locked up outside.

    • @xgkick
      @xgkick 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The police are only interested in things they can fine people for.

  • @covidonenine1948
    @covidonenine1948 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

    Market saturated
    Too expensive
    Weather crap
    People can't be bothered

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      A lot of people couldn't ride one if they wanted to anyway. Elderly, sick, too young or just pointless having one. No use for the weekly shop, getting to work (if you're lucky enough to have a job) or getting the kids to school.

    • @kellikelli4413
      @kellikelli4413 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Are other ppl also put off by BODY TRACKING TECHNOLOGY on everything made nowadays ⁉️

    • @Asewitt
      @Asewitt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Also roads are crap

    • @ohnoitisnt
      @ohnoitisnt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@scaryfakevirus This. Lots of people avoiding fitness for the last 3 years...

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kellikelli4413 They won't track me if I can help it. I never use this smart sheet never will either.

  • @pkchiu89
    @pkchiu89 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +282

    The amount of bikes being stolen have put people off investing in bikes. Whether is pedal power or electric, all I see on my fb feed is their children’s expensive bike stolen or robbed.

    • @bentullett6068
      @bentullett6068 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      Are those stolen bicycles usually found at hotels with guests from France?

    • @grahamkay6142
      @grahamkay6142 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      In the uk we get robbed as we buy them too

    • @daddymulk
      @daddymulk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      What you expect importing the 3rd world

    • @francesbrown5116
      @francesbrown5116 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Why .they have bikes given to them so they can do deliveroo jobs .

    • @darrents44
      @darrents44 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      agree

  • @darrents44
    @darrents44 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    Bike theft is through the roof, yet even when you have a £2k bike stolen, the cops do F all....

    • @steve-r-collier
      @steve-r-collier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      my mate got his £2000 ebike nicked outside sainsburys in burton on trent..there are cctv cameras outside but the police said they didnt cover the bike racks..now i know for a fact there are supposed homeless who sit outside sainsburys begging are are also police informants,now is it just coincidence the police have bike auctions..maybe thats why they are not interested in investigating stolen ones..hmm

    • @mikehunt8968
      @mikehunt8968 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They're too busy protecting terrorist sympathiser's demonstrations from England flags to be bothered with actual policing...🙄

    • @jim_nix71
      @jim_nix71 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The cops do F@ck all anyway

    • @andrewwaller5913
      @andrewwaller5913 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Why would you spend 2k on a bike? Get a car.

    • @steve-r-collier
      @steve-r-collier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@andrewwaller5913 insurance and tax and high fuel price?

  • @BrainfromSpain
    @BrainfromSpain 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +240

    Bikes are like EVs, the enthusiasts who want one have one!!!!

    • @chaosflower4892
      @chaosflower4892 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Prices.. constant change in standards ended my 40 year love of bikes..

    • @quentinstacy35
      @quentinstacy35 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Am in Oz, ride most days on my 25 year old bike. Works fine, why replace it. Nobody wants to steal an old looking bike.

    • @eyesodd
      @eyesodd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Unlike a car, unless the frame cracks a bike will pretty much last forever.
      The market is flooded with good quality used/fairly new and quality vintage bikes I don't get why people would buy new anyway, except for keeping up with the Joneses 🤷🏻‍♂️.

    • @monkeyboy7981
      @monkeyboy7981 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Or who wants one owns many, that's my experience of bikes anyway 😁

    • @FiscalWoofer
      @FiscalWoofer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Or 5😂

  • @ericrawson2909
    @ericrawson2909 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    I used to cycle to work. Too many accidents. cars pulling out in front so I ran into them. Cars overtaking and immediately turning left, forcing you onto the pavement. Falling off on icy roads. Rain, temperatures down to -15C. Get to work all sweaty. You need to be fit and brave, accepting of discomfort and willing to risk injury or death. Not for the faint hearted.

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      fully agree. Needing to shower in work (if possible) and of course worried about the thing being nicked.

    • @julesdowner5585
      @julesdowner5585 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      yers i agree, You need to be pretty stupid to ride a bike on the roads . i ride daily , but not on a busy road .

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      At one point I cycled to work almost every day (quicker than driving due to permanent road works while they built the tram). I confess to resorting to my car once the temperature dropped below freezing though. I did my all-weather-hero apprenticeship riding a motorcycle every day for eight years - and old bones take longer to heal.

    • @chrishart8548
      @chrishart8548 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@TheRealWindlePoons when it's really hot in the summer it's not much fun either.

    • @davidonly
      @davidonly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is a child's toy .......

  • @PenryMMJ
    @PenryMMJ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Well done on trying to calm down the tribalism. I'm a car driver that also rides a bike and I don't hate myself. My car is 16 years old, my bike 18 years old and I have no plans to buy a new one of either. But the powers that be do seem determined to stop us from driving old cars. Maybe the article was the opening shot in a similar war against bikes? Will they decide that people who are peddling breathe out to much CO2, and force us to buy an e-bike? Or just force us to stop breathing?

    • @helmethead72
      @helmethead72 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      My bike is 20 years old, and my 1999 Suzuki Vitara keeps on trucking, and it can't be hacked, can't be immobilized by geo-fencing or any other tech crap!

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes the last point is spot on.

    • @markuskruger2102
      @markuskruger2102 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​​@@helmethead72 My Swift 9 years and my Kalkhoff Holland Bike 28 years, no tracking crap on.......

  • @parasinthephilippines
    @parasinthephilippines 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Day 1 buy a bike.
    Day 2 cycle to supermarket.
    Day 3 claim for bike that was stolen whilst you were in supermarket on Day 2.

    • @mm3nrx
      @mm3nrx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was forced to get my bike insured due to every single bike I have owned being stolen...about 30+

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I keep a bike I bought second hand over 50 years ago. I initially used it for schoolboy time trial racing. The Reynolds 531 frame is now crudely brush-painted, the derailleurs have been replaced with a Sturmey-Archer hub and the racing bars replaced with Dutch flats. Even the carrier is hand painted. In perfect working order but looks a real "rat bike". Its the family "pool bike" and default as a local runabout. We keep it locked and it doesn't look worth stealing. Everyone should have something similar.

    • @OldGuyAdventure
      @OldGuyAdventure 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I used to walk to the supermarket pulling a flotation wheel trailer. I needed to lock it up, or it would be missing when I returned home. But found the town I live in does not clean the sidewalks any better than the roads, and trudging through knee-deep snow with a trailer wasn't practical. We do have a bus service, but we need to schedule a day in advance, which only helps if you do not miss the scheduled bus you took to the shops. Also, when buying groceries, the bus recommends buying a second seat to put your groceries on. Some times, the bus can not reach you because the town will not plow the residential lanes over the winter, and the bus gets stuck in them.

    • @Markcain268
      @Markcain268 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Best to have an old, scruffy bike, no one gives it a second glance then.

    • @parasinthephilippines
      @parasinthephilippines 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Markcain268 Just have a look at any migrant hotel it's the main means of transport.
      So even old bikes are useful to someone else.

  • @paulbarrett-brown7753
    @paulbarrett-brown7753 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Can I have a Government grant to bring back the horse and cart, please?

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Do you have any idea what it costs to run a horse? An EV would be cheaper (I live with two equestrians).

    • @davidkettell1073
      @davidkettell1073 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry ,but no because horses have been reported to fart more than BBC jouirnalists ,if that is even possible ?

    • @tweed532DaveH
      @tweed532DaveH 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Positive side effect of the pollution emitted is sweet smelling Roses and excellent home grown veggies... 🌹🍓🤔🤭👍

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dadigitechman "Thats 150 bucks a month to run yer horse. "
      That's about a tenth of what it costs to keep a horse in livery. Not everyone lives on a ranch with stables...

    • @archhangell
      @archhangell 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂

  • @picobyte
    @picobyte 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    I ride an old wrecky rusty bike.
    That's the best anti theft system here in the Netherlands.

    • @kevinmoffatt
      @kevinmoffatt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I used to think the same way and rode a crusty, rusty brown granny bike which weighed about 250 kgs. I used to ride to work and stuff it into a hedge in the company car park; yes, you've guessed, it was stolen.

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I remember there were bikes 20 deep near Central Station in the 70s. All nicked now eh?

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kevinmoffatt "you've guessed, it was stolen."
      I used to work where the bike shed was directly opposite the main entrance and in full view of someone all the time. I still locked the bike to the rack though.

    • @ohnoitisnt
      @ohnoitisnt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Playing the same game with the works van. The inside is a lot nicer than out...

  • @TheMaw365
    @TheMaw365 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    It's because they get stolen. Our town centre used to have hundreds of bikes locked up through the day in the open. A van came around and took every single one of them, they weren't too fussed if they were cheap or not. Fast forward 1 year. I can coun't maybe 4 bikes on the way into work and they're all very low end models. You can't even pop into a cafe for a drink, there are hydraulic cutters you can use with one hand that can do half an inch of hardened steel. It's just a massive waste of money to have a town bike. That's why you mainly see enthusiasts with them. They leave home, ride them, go home lock them up and drive back into town lol.

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So that's where the hotels get all their bikes.

    • @goodbro7846
      @goodbro7846 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You let your country get invaded with.wankers by wanker politicians....

    • @robertdegroot8302
      @robertdegroot8302 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup, seen the same thing happen in the Netherlands. In the middle of the day a van with Romanian or Bulgarian looking guys just stopped in front of a mall and started hauling 20+ bikes in the van. Those bikes could be anywhere in Europe within 24 hours.

  • @jameskinsey4182
    @jameskinsey4182 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    No one can afford to buy most things because we are taxed to death and are being ripped off with utility companies super markets and councils

  • @stevehensonuk
    @stevehensonuk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    I rode avidly until I got my first car (at 17). And to the best of my knowledge I did not spend the whole time looking down trying to avoid potholes. I wouldn't dare ride a bike on today's roads as the moment you look up to read the traffic - you're over the handlebars or being speared into oncoming traffic by the road surface. I've followed a number of 'normal' cyclists and it looks terrifying. A blown tyre on a car is a pain, but its nothing to the injuries you can sustain on a bike from the same hole in the road....

    • @dtz1000
      @dtz1000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thats one reason why i have a fat tyre ebike. You dont need to worry too much about potholes if you have one of those.

    • @eleveneleven572
      @eleveneleven572 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm pleased to say I now live in France and potholes are virtually unknown.

  • @nickbutler7935
    @nickbutler7935 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The Government are helping the Industry, just look at all the Bikes outside certain hotels.

    • @therealunclevanya
      @therealunclevanya 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I heard Halfords donated thousands of bikes to them

  • @warrensmith4590
    @warrensmith4590 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    You don't need a folding bike if you're working from home and not commuting

    • @picobyte
      @picobyte 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't have space for an foldable bike in my car.

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Folding bikes are quite handy for a visit to the pub though. Park it under your table and if you get really pissed you can take it home on the bus with you.

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@picobyte A folded Brompton is the size of a large shopping bag. What the hell do you drive? 😀

    • @picobyte
      @picobyte 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheRealWindlePoons Toyota Aygo. Filled up today and calculated 22km per litre. I can drive 700km on a single tank of fuel. With all my tools on board.

    • @picobyte
      @picobyte 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😆@@TheRealWindlePoons

  • @Grumpy-Goblin
    @Grumpy-Goblin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    I went into a local Motorcycle shop recently and they had a bicycle in there for nearly £5k. Stood less than 10 feet from it was a brand new 300cc motorcycle for £2995.....can't imagine why bicycles aren't selling 🤣🤣🤣

    • @JohnHughes2002
      @JohnHughes2002 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I went into a bike shop in Lancaster and they had a bike for sale for £10k and they said they sometimes have one on sale for £14k. 😂

    • @gedofgont1006
      @gedofgont1006 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Luxury!

    • @artistonamotorbike
      @artistonamotorbike 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was the same you can get some great motorbikes for 5k and you dont have to pedal 🤣

    • @KuroSanArts
      @KuroSanArts 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I've seen supposed "budget" bikes selling for more than 2nd hand R1's!

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      "a bicycle in there for nearly £5k. Stood less than 10 feet from it was a brand new 300cc motorcycle for £2995"
      ===
      Its a fair point but a different market. You can pay sixty quid for a second-hand bike or a hundred grand for a custom superbike.
      When 18, someone asked me why I chose a bike when the same money would get me "a nice little car to take your girlfriend out". My answer was that a "nice little car" wouldn't do 0-60 in under seven seconds.

  • @jackdeniston6150
    @jackdeniston6150 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Without Government meddling. Always meddling. Badly. MAybe they should be pedaling.

    • @glynnepritchard2526
      @glynnepritchard2526 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Boris the clown did that and we were worse off

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You must be joking! The will never get out of their 4 litre Range Rovers. Bikes are just for the plebs and MP's photo-shoots.

  • @superspecky4eyes
    @superspecky4eyes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The reason bike sales are down is probably because everyone and their dog who bought a bike during lockdown still has it gathering dust in the shed. The industry had ten years worth of sales in 18 months, there are only so many bicycles a person needs at one time.

    • @OsellaSquadraCorse
      @OsellaSquadraCorse 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree with new ones, your point is very valid! However I disagree with the second part, as the owner of.... several....

    • @superspecky4eyes
      @superspecky4eyes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@OsellaSquadraCorse N+1 😂

  • @anglosaxon5874
    @anglosaxon5874 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    Even the Roman Legionaries hated being stationed here due to the weather! lol

    • @goldilocks913
      @goldilocks913 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      There’s writing on Hadrian’s wall advertising Geoffus aquire chariots 😂

    • @steve-r-collier
      @steve-r-collier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      imagine when the grand solar minimum gets going like next few winters

    • @davidonly
      @davidonly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And it was MUCH warmer then :)

    • @steve-r-collier
      @steve-r-collier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@davidonly probably why they buggered off when the climate got colder

    • @markuskruger2102
      @markuskruger2102 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Asterix told so...... 😂But have the vision of Euro tunnel........

  • @hamshackleton
    @hamshackleton 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I built my own bike - from a frame I pulled out of a canal, two wheels and bits from the local spares shop, and it lasted for about 20 years. In that time I wore out four back wheels (bearing collapses), was knocked off three times, twice of those I was stopped at red lights, and the clod in a car thought I should get out of his way - the third one at a roundabout, where the blind driver joining from my left claimed he didn't see me - or the cop car directly behind me that happened to be going the same way. That bike 'died' later when the headstock snapped off at a weld. It's replacement lasted three weeks, then a truck ran over it while I was in a shop, and it was parked in a 'bike rack'. Because it was 'only a pedal cycle' and nobody was hurt, that went nowhere. Now - the only places I can cycle that are not on crowded roads are round and round in a public park, or along a canal tow-path - and I can safely say that riding a bicycle through deep mud on a narrow track half a meter from a canal is not fun whether the sun is shining or not!

    • @mej6519
      @mej6519 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pretty much the same here. Found a frame dumped in a hedge, cleaned it up, throw on some ebay parts.
      Best commuter bike iv ever owned. And it still looks like it's been pulled out of a canal. No one even looks at it.

    • @robatkins6432
      @robatkins6432 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      twice of those makes no sense "two of those times"

  • @paulgee6111
    @paulgee6111 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    It's not stopped raining! What do they expect?

    • @chaosflower4892
      @chaosflower4892 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      In a country that can't build a railway or reservoir.. are they making it rain?

    • @paulgee6111
      @paulgee6111 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@chaosflower4892 tinkering no doubt!

    • @brianmays4366
      @brianmays4366 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Last year was the ''HOTTEST'' in 50 years or some such rot!

    • @brianmays4366
      @brianmays4366 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@chaosflower4892Just look at what Dubai has done with cloud seeding

    • @chrishart8548
      @chrishart8548 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@brianmays4366it wasn't though was it. I've known summers where the roads basically started to melt.

  • @wordup1944
    @wordup1944 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Look up how many people get mugged for their bikes in London EVERY DAY

  • @Karl_Burton
    @Karl_Burton 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    People ride around London on a bike worth four grand ? Do they have T shirts saying "Just so you know, I'm wearing a Rolex", too ?

    • @disband_thebbc5933
      @disband_thebbc5933 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      No they wear T-shirts saying "I used to have a four grand bike. It was stolen. Now I'm walking." 😂

    • @TheBDD1970
      @TheBDD1970 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Only if they are bureaucrats..seems they can print your money at will with spending bills.

    • @wearetheremnants1615
      @wearetheremnants1615 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Some electric bikes are £15k

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I had a road bike frame custom built when I retired. A friend commented that my choice of paint job does not shout "Steal me!". He is right.

    • @Karl_Burton
      @Karl_Burton 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wearetheremnants1615 Stunning

  • @billmmckelvie5188
    @billmmckelvie5188 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    As I cyclist and a car driver, I agree with what you have said. Especially making about leisure time rather than the commute.
    This is where the lack of joined up thinking mucks it all up, which I would like to address on your channel. There is a wonderful British invention called the Youth Hostel (You can also drop the Youth bit too as 65 year oldies are very much welcome as I was at Boggle Hole Y.H.
    There is nothing better and they have moved on from their Army barrack block image of the 60s and 70s. With regarding families you can book a family room. The good thing is these are half the price or more than hotels or even B&Bs
    They don't distinguish between cyclists, motorists, walkers.
    Please use them before we loose them. Somebody from the YHA would be glad to talk about them on your channel. All the best a lifelong YHA member.

  • @ianchalklen1047
    @ianchalklen1047 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Caravan sales are the lowest for 20 years and motor homes 30 years. Hunt said a recession was a price worth paying to get inflation down. Crush the economy and inflation will fall, however you won’t hear him own this.

    • @TheLiamis
      @TheLiamis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Put all politicians on minimum wage and outlaw their side hustle £millions dodgy dealings.

    • @blogg9922
      @blogg9922 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Lot of people bought motor homes post lockdown.
      They rapidly discovered the practical limitations and how quickly sitting listening to rain falling on the roof becomes boring
      And are stuck with them

    • @gedofgont1006
      @gedofgont1006 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That would be Jeremy Hunt, with a silent 'C' in his surname.😊

    • @steve-r-collier
      @steve-r-collier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      good..maybe i can pick up a cheap camper in the autumn

    • @steve-r-collier
      @steve-r-collier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@blogg9922 my sister was lucky..she sold her £45k one for £40k last year..doubt she'd get anywhere near that amount now

  • @Stepbystep74
    @Stepbystep74 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It rains in Holland the main difference I saw was knee length coats or ponchos everywhere and not a bike without good fixed mud guards. All our cycling equipment is specialised for leisure not every day commuting in comfort

    • @barneyklingenberg4078
      @barneyklingenberg4078 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In Holland spending proper money on a well designed commuter bike.
      Is basically giving your money to organized crime. Because they will find it and steal it.

  • @drstrangelove4998
    @drstrangelove4998 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    No wonder the £millions spent on the huge two-lane cycling superhighways in my neighbourhood in Greenwich are unused… meanwhile our Council Taxes are through the roof 😡
    There is poor or no utility in cycling for most people outside occasional recreational use and the heavy breathers in Lycra larping they are on the TdF. London too is very hilly north and south.

  • @chidizzy6633
    @chidizzy6633 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    As a cyclist i have no sympathy for bike manufacturers during the plan demic they litterly doubled the price of bikes and ripped everyone off

    • @kevinmott6205
      @kevinmott6205 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hear Hear......my sentiments exactly. So what the cocky greedy industry has done is over projected sales and over produced. Bit like with EVs sorry couldn't resist. On top of this record crime figures, cost of living, over taxation. Bish, bosh and bang!!!!!

  • @Dezzasheep
    @Dezzasheep 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I've cycled to work and TT raced (in the past) for over 15 years. The prices for something without an engine is ludicrous, not a surprise the industry has imploded. The top models are 9- 10k+, it beggars belief.

  • @keithscott1957
    @keithscott1957 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    People are wary of getting a bike for fear that they might turn into Jeremy Vine.

    • @kevinmoffatt
      @kevinmoffatt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Too appalling to contemplate; is it even preventible?

  • @iainrobinson4280
    @iainrobinson4280 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I feel like this is partly my fault as i still have my 1998 GT mountain bike (bought for 25 quid six years ago). My wife is doing her best to make up for it by buying the kids new bikes at £300 a pop. They do fewer miles than i do.

  • @middknifecrisis
    @middknifecrisis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I know of 2 amateur endurance cyclists that had spent thousands on bi-cycles who have now had to give up their hobby due to a medical condition called Long covaids, if I know of 2 and I'm almost a hermit then I'm positive there must be many many more.

    • @BenSamuel-d6l
      @BenSamuel-d6l 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      jabbed vigorously were they?....lol

    • @middknifecrisis
      @middknifecrisis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenSamuel-d6l no not vigorously, just safely and effectively;)

    • @paul756uk2
      @paul756uk2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeh the old needle don't do the ticker much good.

    • @middknifecrisis
      @middknifecrisis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BenSamuel-d6l no not vigorously, just safely and effectively apparently;)

    • @middknifecrisis
      @middknifecrisis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenSamuel-d6l No not vigorously, just saFely and 3ffectiVly ;) ( written this way due to 3 odd deletions.)

  • @rebootweb
    @rebootweb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    A problem that was brought to my attention about "Boris Bikes" that I never thought about was that tourists with no license, no road knowledge, no insurance and no common sense could ride one around London. The figures for injuries was apparently high.

    • @maskofsan1ty
      @maskofsan1ty 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's what cycling should be.

  • @johnoakman7923
    @johnoakman7923 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    71 years old, lifetime bike rider & car owner. One of your best pieces to date & so sensible Geoff. Bravo. Thankyou.

  • @chaosflower4892
    @chaosflower4892 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Getting rid of 26iin.. constantly changing standards and high prices have turned off buyers..

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      26 so practical

    • @thathurt
      @thathurt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was shocked when I learnt it's now 27 1/2 inch forTBs now when I got a new bike the other year. There was nothing wrong with 26 inch. Easier navigating the stupid shared footpath barriers. 😊

    • @draugmithrin
      @draugmithrin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ride a dropbar converted 26 inch 3X7 90's MTB with rack and mudguard to work, bombproof and cheap to maintain.

    • @superspecky4eyes
      @superspecky4eyes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@thathurt Mate, 27.5" is old news, its all about 29" these days.

    • @TheRealWindlePoons
      @TheRealWindlePoons 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "constantly changing standards and high prices have turned off buyers.."
      Wasn't it always so?
      I have two folding bikes, one 20" wheels, the other 16". I have two road bikes, one 700C wheels, the other 27" x 1 1/4...

  • @maxwellCsmith
    @maxwellCsmith 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love my bike for staying fit. I don't want to commute with it because i don't want to arrive to work hot and sweaty. Plus not very good for doing the weekly shop!

  • @NailBombEnjoyer
    @NailBombEnjoyer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    mostly because they're stolen so much here, I have a very expensive custom bike that I built myself and I would ride to most places locally if the risk of it being stolen wasn't there. I rarely see a patrolling policeman anywhere these days so petty theft is just easy and the police aren't interested anyway.
    Not to mention the risk of riding on roads being too much for everyone involved and the complete lack upkeep of pavements footpaths etc. it just doesnt make sense.

    • @debbiegilmour6171
      @debbiegilmour6171 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A general runner bike shouldn't be expensive. If you want a runner, don't spend any more than 500 quid.

    • @NailBombEnjoyer
      @NailBombEnjoyer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@debbiegilmour6171 it will get stolen either way, no matter the price unfortunately

  • @markbray2988
    @markbray2988 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I cycle regularly in Switzerland, safe cycling lanes virtually everywhere, almost no potholes.
    Cycling in the UK is just way too dangerous! Hardly any bike lanes and if you're not avoiding potholes your dodging motorists intent on mowing you down!

    • @derekferguson385
      @derekferguson385 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Switzerland not flat enough.

    • @markbray2988
      @markbray2988 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's not completely mountainous!
      I live on Lac Laman, it's very flat!

  • @leedavies6166
    @leedavies6166 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Halfords have cornered the market . I worked during the lockdown and we were sending 3000 bikes a day . Profit doubled from 50 mill to over 100 mill.

    • @thathurt
      @thathurt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      No proper cyclist goes in Halfords. 😱

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Viruses can't catch up with people on bikes. Nor can people on bikes or not catch viruses.

    • @tatsnneeps341
      @tatsnneeps341 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Halfrauds more apt

    • @barneyklingenberg4078
      @barneyklingenberg4078 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Halfords is much worse then Decathlon……

  • @jameswade4097
    @jameswade4097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Road cyclist here-" BOOO HISS ". I have had more near misses in the past 3yrs than the past 30yrs. I wonder why that is?.

    • @BerndFelsche
      @BerndFelsche 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Try a larger size lycra. 😊

    • @julesdowner5585
      @julesdowner5585 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      my car got hit when parked in the golf club car park!. no where is safe . I cycle daily but never on a road. I may have the right but i do not want the injuries

    • @scaryfakevirus
      @scaryfakevirus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Cyclists and vehicles trying to avoid all the pot holes I suspect.

    • @charliepatterson9321
      @charliepatterson9321 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cell phones

    • @jameswade4097
      @jameswade4097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Something beginning with V?@@charliepatterson9321

  • @Farney-gy1qo
    @Farney-gy1qo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I bought a Shopper bike to shop locally with it during the Pandemic. I got bored of how much effort it takes, so I drive my car more again.

  • @superloopy24v
    @superloopy24v 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Brompton are particularly popular targets for thieves too, so sales will probably be affected by the increased likelihood of theft over any other make/type of bike.

  • @davidwood755
    @davidwood755 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Hotel carparks are full of them 🤔

    • @JamesSmith-qs4hx
      @JamesSmith-qs4hx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      People who never invented the wheel now have 2 to contend with..... 😆

  • @Mark-ef2ly
    @Mark-ef2ly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Weather is rubbish and too much traffic.

    • @johneeeemarry34
      @johneeeemarry34 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At least they can’t steal the weather…

    • @MRFUCKOFF202
      @MRFUCKOFF202 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Neither of these things have been seen in Britain before 2023

  • @philg7889
    @philg7889 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Got a car and a road bike. I had a big year cycling in 2023, but I'm less inclined this year, as the roads have become MORE dangerous. It's all an accident waiting to happen.

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      same here, cycled a lot on the road bike for a number of years then the children came along and it's not worth the risk anymore.

    • @superspecky4eyes
      @superspecky4eyes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Mountain biking... hurling yourself down a rocky hill is much safer than navigating lorrys and potholes.

    • @mikehunt8968
      @mikehunt8968 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Have you seen the 'Most Dangerous Roads' TV shows? They all seem to be in the homelands of our recent insurgency types...... Imagine my shock!...🙄

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@colingregson8653 yes, they have gotten significantly worse in the past 2 years, especially on the near side, the home of the solo cyclist.

    • @debbiegilmour6171
      @debbiegilmour6171 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@colingregson8653No, it's the cars that will get you, unless of course you're not riding a sensible bike in which case everything will get you.

  • @clungepoker6749
    @clungepoker6749 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    No point buying an expensive new bike as they just get stolen... I bought my bike from my local carboot sale for fifty quid six or seven years ago, it had been 'serviced' and is still on the same tyres.

    • @grahamkay6142
      @grahamkay6142 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I bet that was mine what was stolen lol 😆 😂 🤣 😅

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@grahamkay6142 brilliant.

  • @KuroSanArts
    @KuroSanArts 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The cycle industry is crashing because manufacturers got greedy during lockdown and hiked all their prices because everyone was buying bikes. Lockdown ended but the prices stayed high. Another major issue is that many manufacturers just don't make actual budget bikes anymore, their ranges start from a grand and those are labelled as "budget"!
    I've tried explaining the weather issue to people who think it's fine for all to just get a bike, I've invited people to try cycling 10 miles to work at 5am on a morning in January, when you get freezing rain blasting sideways into your face, but they never take me up on the offer for some reason!

  • @hughjasse3375
    @hughjasse3375 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Anecdotal about the high end ebike market:
    There used to be a high end ebike showroom on the highway, coming into the City of London, near Tower Bridge (if anyone knows the road).
    I noticed it closed down recently. It used to do everything from eMopeds that looked like Vespas and even mini Harleys, to wafer thin scooters and folding bikes. With hefty price ranges, into the several thousands.
    I guess it was like a Porsche showroom for ebikes, targeting bankers and the like with top of the range, cutting edge ebikes. I think it lasted about two years.

    • @TheLiamis
      @TheLiamis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They got legislated out of existence.

    • @dtz1000
      @dtz1000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The chinese ebikes came along and showed everyone what a rip off these high end european ebikes have been. Chinese ebikes are great value. I overtake the rip off ebikes on my Chinese ebike all the time.

    • @hughjasse3375
      @hughjasse3375 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dtz1000 I really doubt your temu ebike is made of super light carbon fibre and has a one hundred mile unassisted range.

  • @trulymental7651
    @trulymental7651 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I used to walk to school, everyday with no parents, with other kids.
    If you are a cyclist the roads are double dangerous, too many cars , too many potholes.
    It was great during lockdown,no cars 😂.
    In my opinion there are way too many vehicles on the road, mostly with one person in , mostly short journeys.
    Logistics, eg sending builders, plumbers etc half way across the country doesn't help.
    I don't agree with the government, evs etc, but it needs sorting.
    Also net zero sounds like no people to me .

  • @ste.6026
    @ste.6026 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Spot on... Not sure if areas such as London have the same hills as where I live in Derbyshire or others such as Yorkshire... In my thirties I frequently biked to work, it was a 28 mile round journey, now I'm sixty my knees are crap and the extensive steep hills hurt... Bikes are purely for recreation these days, if it's a short journey; say 2 miles, I will walk, if I have both the time and the weather is good... If it's a longer trek and especially if the weather is bad then the car is the way to go... Stuff buses, I suffer badly from motion sickness and don't enjoy having to suffer other people, I remember my mum struggling home with four or five bags of heavy shopping on the bus in the 70's... Glad those days are gone and I don't wish to see the likes again...

  • @brianknowles7130
    @brianknowles7130 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    With more & more people working from home these days, they don't need a bike to take on a train.

  • @johnnyhollis9977
    @johnnyhollis9977 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I have never seen a bicycle promotion advertisement filmed in a gale and stair rodding it down with rain!!! 😂

  • @HistoricalWeapons
    @HistoricalWeapons 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They are just in the used market paying cash

  • @robertallen8715
    @robertallen8715 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Cycling on the roads and lanes here, certainly around school pick up time would be suicide....

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      you don't wanna meet mumma bear in her XC90 on a country lane that's for sure.

  • @fishtigua
    @fishtigua 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    In the last 15 years I've had 5 electric bikes. Ignoring the crappy cheap Chinese one, I bought as tech improved. I have 2 at the moment, one normal and one a bit quicker. I got nicked on the quick one at 21mph (15 is legal) and got a 2 year suspended sentence in court. The 2 others prosecuted at the same time had the licences suspended for a month and 2 months respectively. The Cops were having a crack-down on electric bikers. However, when Jenson Button lived on our road, he passed me on his carbon bike at 50mph in a 35 zone.

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      can you go in to detail. Can cops do me for speeding on a push bike? Can cops add points to my driving licence for bicycle offence? No licence needed for bike or electric bike

    • @boogboog8097
      @boogboog8097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Wear a deliveroo backpack and fake tan police will go nowhere near you no matter how you bike

    • @boogboog8097
      @boogboog8097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@John_Wood_short answer yes, which is bizarre because you arent driving and its a driving licence.

    • @fishtigua
      @fishtigua 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@John_Wood_ That's the thing John, the law is a very big Grey Area regard leccy bikes. In the UK Twist & Go bikes are now legal-ish but not in the EU. I'm from Guernsey and they normally take Tech Law from the UK, not the EU. All a bit dodgy.

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@fishtigua a friend is considering a "chipped" e bike capable of 28mph, apparently. Think the legal limit is 15mph, but as you say the law is very grey. But again, I can easily do over 30mph on my road bike on a down hill and never considered that they could add points to my driving licence!

  • @MrDirkles
    @MrDirkles 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I used to cycle every week and often do a 100 mile ride on the weekend. With people staring at phones and the appalling road conditions this made cycling no fun anymore.

  • @ktm-bc1dw
    @ktm-bc1dw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    bike manufacturers and shops took the mikey during covid emtb now £6000 - £12000 pure greed by this industry

    • @dtz1000
      @dtz1000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then people realised that cheap Chinese fat tyre ebikes are just as fun off-road than these rip off eurpean emtbs. Good that they are going out of business as they deserve it for their greed.

  • @mrwpg
    @mrwpg 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Just did my CBT for a summer of motorbiking, then i saw the price of a bike, really hoping the cost of survival crisis will force people to sell so i can burn some dino juice for no reason other than having fun.. and sticking it to the man or woman/them/it, whatever the case may be today...

    • @Muppet.master
      @Muppet.master 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The turkey teeth brigade will start selling soon , hold ya horses 😂🃏🐰🕳️

  • @TheLiamis
    @TheLiamis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Where to start. Pleb class has no spare money, your bike is stollen by boat doctors/engineers in the city and the roads in the countryside are 95% potholes. Why would you buy a bike?
    Edit: it also rains 90% of the year with highs of 6⁰c temperatures.

  • @richardsmith579
    @richardsmith579 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    No government support. I’m sick of them taking my money and wasting it.

  • @jon9218
    @jon9218 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In London a fortune is being spent on cycle lanes and they are very busy too.

  • @WhippsCross
    @WhippsCross 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My old fella used to say theres no such thing as bad weather, just a matter of wrong clothing and moaning. So when anyone started giving out about the gloomy forecast he would always remind them that there were people in hospital or stuck inside their house because of disabilities or poor health that would wish they could change places with the gripers just to be able to walk in the wind & rain.

    • @12pentaborane
      @12pentaborane 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I completely agree, but then there's been 80 or 40 years of getting accustomed to zooming around in a cozy bubble in all kinds of weather.

  • @lestersmyth692
    @lestersmyth692 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Northumberland county council spent millions on cycle paths that are hardly used whilst our roads are falling to pieces.

  • @NobbingNobby
    @NobbingNobby 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Bike sales down? Yay! It’s about time there was some good news.

  • @andywrollo2915
    @andywrollo2915 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    During the c thingy lock down I wanted to get a mountain bike. (I've got bikes always have had, used to cycle rain or shine.) You couldn't get a bike anywhere. Even Halford had none in their shop. I was lucky when I was surfing the Web and some had been delivered so managed to order one. They sold out in hours. Now there is a glut of bikes and people trying to sell. Agree with other posters. Bike theft is rife. From cars, sheds, gardens etc. On top of that some cyclists do themselves no favours the way they ride and don't obey traffic lights etc. Just my thoughts. Love your videos. Thank you. 👍

  • @keithwaller4545
    @keithwaller4545 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Geoff, as someone who has cycled since a kid now 50 plus cycling has never been mainstream. I guess Bradley Wiggins had a big affect. Convid people just bought bike and a dog just to get outside.
    Plus cycle manufacturers same as cars ,motorcycle. Make way to many models which are pointless. And head management away think every year sales will go up.
    Last two years the weather's been pants. This winter is the least I've cycled and been on motorcycle ever . And I am two wheeled mad.
    So someone who isn't never going to happen.
    Plus does make me laugh, can't believe the amount of kids these days which are driven to school.

  • @geoffreytonkinson1240
    @geoffreytonkinson1240 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My wife and I are both car drivers and we do lots of cycling enjoying both .

  • @tobytroubs
    @tobytroubs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Might have a look at it when the likes of MP's and Govt / Councils themselves give up cars and Planes etc and we see them doing their business on a pushbike

  • @johna3421
    @johna3421 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm so enjoying your channel. With the BBC and you tubers/journalists who have given over to financial carrots to promote EVs and the latest agenda, your straight talking no nonsense approach is like a breath of fresh air! Love it👍! I came across your channel via The MacMaster.

  • @ohyesitsme
    @ohyesitsme 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Everything around the cycle industry it too expensive. There aren't many remaining bike makers left in the UK when you consider going back some years there used to be a frame builder in most towns, now they are mostly imported from the East.

  • @sirjohng1
    @sirjohng1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where I live we have a half mile cycleway/footpath constructed beside a quite narrow main road in the countryside about 25 years ago costing £100,000. It goes from nowhere to nowhere as part of a long cycleway that never happened. A few years ago it was refurbished for the second time.
    It is rarely used, most of the rare cyclists use the narrow main road causing hold ups for some bizarre reason and pedestrians are as rare as hen’s teeth.

  • @donaldmacdonald4901
    @donaldmacdonald4901 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Left my Brompton outside unlocked a few times here in Japan 😅 never a problem

    • @therealunclevanya
      @therealunclevanya 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A safe homogeneous society

  • @catmantech
    @catmantech 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is good news for ambulance crews, hospitals and police staff as their time isn't going to be taken up with Road Traffic Collisions and Road Traffic Fatalities, involving cyclists being struck by all these poorly driven cars.
    (I'm an ex-cyclist and now full time wheelchair user!)

  • @johnuk5160
    @johnuk5160 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Spend a day at your council waste site and count the number of bicycles thrown away, times this by all sites, by 5 days a week, how many is that per year???, while your there count all the other items that still have plenty of life in them, council are also paid via contracts to dispose of this stuff, take your car batteries to a scrap yard don't give them to the council to profit from, 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

    • @garrybowers414
      @garrybowers414 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Local scrap man allways have three or four bikes on their wagon

    • @julesdowner5585
      @julesdowner5585 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I used to buy bikes from the tip. you would be amazed what people throw away .

  • @matthewgodwin3050
    @matthewgodwin3050 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In Oxford city centre, you can have any bike you want for the price of a one way bus ticket and a pair of pliers. And if you're willing to stump up £29.99 for a scanner, you can have a brand new Range Rover too.

  • @BlackLines
    @BlackLines 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    If people bought bikes during the plaaaaaaaa lockdown why would they still be buying them now? It's not like you buy a new one every couple of years like an iphone, they sit in the shed.

  • @11royals96
    @11royals96 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How many journeys are short enough to cycle to? How often do we need to carry shopping, children or other items that wont fit on a bike? As you say how often is the weather appropriate? What about age, health issues, cycling at night, arriving to work, wet, sweaty, and covered in road gunge. For a few people and for a few of their journeys it may well be fine, but as a general principal it just doesn't work. For information I enjoy cycling and own two bikes (mountain biking as it is safer than being on the road).

  • @DAVIDE-bk8by
    @DAVIDE-bk8by 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Could the neck breaking potholes have something to do with it. Not safe to bike on the state of our roads these days, so easy to hit one and go straight over the handle bars... and yes the lousy manipulated weather as well

  • @dps8435
    @dps8435 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I live in Lincoln and one of the reasons I moved here is the great cycle lanes we have.

  • @youngoldboy3430
    @youngoldboy3430 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My bike is 30 years old and still works as well as it did when new, chances are it will see me out.

  • @Orwellianbiker
    @Orwellianbiker 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi Geoff, I’ve got a shop in Selby, nothing is selling but thankfully, busy on repairs. Great videos, really enjoy them. If you’re even up here there’s a coffee with your name on.

  • @gripper79
    @gripper79 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    All the rain is probably down to cloud seeding as in Dubi and a covert way to stop the farmers growing food which will keep inflation high and everyone poorer

    • @peterpheasey7352
      @peterpheasey7352 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes and no crops at the end of the season, no food ,starvation, the elite's will need more than their under=ground bunkers, to protect them, when people starve

  • @Elsie-uy2kl
    @Elsie-uy2kl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Despite all the new cycle lanes that councils are providing people will not buy bikes as cars are safer. You cannot carry passengers or take someone to hospital on a bike. 🤔

  • @BrettMoore-ud8wx
    @BrettMoore-ud8wx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The bike industry got too greedy during the pandemic. Prices of all bikes went up and have not come down. They are now just too expensive.

    • @dtz1000
      @dtz1000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats why i bought a chinese ebike. Its been fantastic and much better value for money. Our own countrymen rip us off. It's disgusting. Dont let them.

  • @brendanpells912
    @brendanpells912 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When I was a student somebody nicked my bike lock but left the bike. Many years ago I went to the old Raleigh factory that stretched along Triumph Road in Nottingham. Now it's a student campus.

  • @Canalofschlemm
    @Canalofschlemm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of your best diatribes of recent videos, and so bang on!

  • @JohnPalmer-i4z
    @JohnPalmer-i4z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just about as accurate, calm and spot-on a video as can be. One of your very best! Thanks Geoff - keep up the great work.👍

  • @TimothySmith-pm6un
    @TimothySmith-pm6un 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There is no bike “industry” in the UK, it’s all retail consumerism. I cycle to work every day and have to rebuild every moving part every two years. That’s cos I ride a lot. If you bought a bike in 2020 and never ride it, of course you don’t buy a new bike in 2024, it’s still in mint condition.

  • @steveclark..
    @steveclark.. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well said Geoff, great points you made, I totally agree that the focus on cycling should be a leisurely one. I have a car, motorcycle and bicycle myself.

  • @KOL630
    @KOL630 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ‘High end’ bikes are becoming more and more expensive too, the companies selling them are pricing themselves out of the market. It’s ridiculous. Bikes have always been relatively expensive but now it’s beyond a joke. Same with EV’s. They are too expensive for most people it’s not rocket science.
    Constant growth is also unrealistic. Once everyone has bought a bike that’s it. You don’t buy a new one weekly so the market cannot continue to grow. The pandemic bike boom was short lived. Again it shouldn’t be a surprise.

  • @TheMistyBlueLounge
    @TheMistyBlueLounge 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Same thing in Canada. The weather is bike adverse for 5-6 months of the year and that's just one issue. Few people want to ride a bike right alongside cars during rush hour, and fewer want to bike to work at all... Canada is large and commutes are long enough as it is! More bike lanes on the main roads also slows down transit like buses, which are a more realistic alternative to reduce traffic and personal expense... if they're efficient!

  • @Knight766
    @Knight766 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We're in an enocomic slump but the wealth of the very rich is growing exponentially. Something doesn't add up

  • @rogerhall559
    @rogerhall559 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great quote!! 6 degrees and drizzling 2/3's of the year.

  • @skidy2
    @skidy2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    why do some E-Bikes cost as much as a car? Then the police want to take the useful high-power ones off you and crush them. Then you don't need a driver's license to use one. Only when the police want to fine you or give you points. so, the insurance companies can charge you more to drive a car why?

    • @John_Wood_
      @John_Wood_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      can they add point to your car licencE?

  • @mvoetmann1
    @mvoetmann1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Getting out of your car and onto your bike is hard. Even when it makes sense. I know this from my own life. I live about 3 km. from where i shop. I should bike there. But I don't. I always use the car.
    I did at one point work only 18 km from where i lived, and I did bike back and forth. It was definitely the best parts of the day. Biking is great when you get into the habit.
    A lot of people need their cars. A lot of people should get bikes instead. It depends on the individual situation. And it does help when there is some nice bicycle infrastructure. Bicycle lanes. Bicycle parking.

    • @kevinmoffatt
      @kevinmoffatt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      When I cycled to work the exercise always prepared me for the day ahead and I felt ready to tackle anything. When I changed to a job an hours drive away even getting out of the car was a drag and I certainly didn't relish the coming shift.