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Snobbery, Lazyness, and Danger From Cars: RTE Covers Why the Humble Bicycle Had Started to Fall Out of Favour by 1974
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A four-member group of cyclists from Germany wanted to take a trip to Carinthia with their e-bikes, whereby a motorist overtaken too little – a cyclist came to fall and is now in danger of life. A four-member group of tourists from Germany wanted to take advantage of the sunny holiday in order to cycle with their e-bikes from Drobollach towards Faak am See. "As one of the bicycle handlebars, a 65-year-old man, was about to overtake another cycli…
A 65-year-old e-bike driver hovered on Monday after a collision with a car in Finkenstein (Bez. Villach-Land) in acute danger of life. The German just overtook another cyclist when he was captured by a car according to the police. According to witnesses, the distance between the car and the cyclist was less than half a meter, it was said of an "extremely negligent overtaking process".
Snobbery, lazyness, and danger from cars: RTE covers why the humble bicycle had started to fall out of favour by 1974
Interview clips at the start of the segment broadcast in the 1970s include people giving various reasons for the decline in cycling such as because got out of the habit of it; that there’s a snobbish attitude towards cycling; because car parking or using buses were easier; in the short term because of colder weather of the winter puts them off; and just because people are lazy. The recording of the RTE broadcast from 1974 was republished on RTE.…
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