Cycling to work

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At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------
but how many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

A lot of bikes.
I think you have found a critical mass storage depot.
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del 8-)

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:26:31 GMT, "Pinky"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------ but how
many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

Curious - many of them appear to be almost strictly identical.

Pinky' of said:

I thought I would post a link to a "car park" in the industrial outskirts of
Ludwigshafen on the middle Rhein, on my 2006 cycling tour in May June this
year. This was actually the second photo I took -- the first one only had
about 30 or so bikes on it then I cycled another 100
metres!!!!!...........................
http://www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/A_lot_more_bikes.JPG

At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------ but how
many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

All the same model. Was it a bike factory?
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Steph Peters
Chorlton Wanderers Cycling Group
Monthly slow and easy rides from South Manchester
http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/cycling/chwan.htm

Pinky said:

http://www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/A_lot_more_bikes.JPG

At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------ but how
many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

Fantastic. I rather like this picture of a bike park in Amsterdam:
<url:http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/?g2_itemId=276647>

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Danny Colyer <URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Steph Peters said:

Pinky' of said:

I thought I would post a link to a "car park" in the industrial outskirts of
Ludwigshafen on the middle Rhein, on my 2006 cycling tour in May June this
year. This was actually the second photo I took -- the first one only had
about 30 or so bikes on it then I cycled another 100
metres!!!!!...........................
http://www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/A_lot_more_bikes.JPG

At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------ but how
many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

All the same model. Was it a bike factory?

Looks more like the local post office??

druidh

"druidh" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:is4Gg.22365

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------ but
how many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

All the same model. Was it a bike factory?

Looks more like the local post office??

druidh

Except the Post office bikes are yellow in Germany! Presumably that factory
( don't know what it was) gave all its workers a bike for free!

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Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.

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All the same model. Was it a bike factory?
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Nah, must have been Photoshop...

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KTR

Pinky said:

I thought I would post a link to a "car park" in the industrial outskirts of
Ludwigshafen on the middle Rhein, on my 2006 cycling tour in May June this
year. This was actually the second photo I took -- the first one only had
about 30 or so bikes on it then I cycled another 100
metres!!!!!...........................
http://www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/A_lot_more_bikes.JPG

At a rough estimate there are about 15 cars in the background ------ but how
many bikes? And they were clearly all in use!

Ludwigshafen? That sounds like chemical industry. On many of these large
chemical production sites the workers use bikes to get from A to B. Maybe
the company also offered these bikes for private use. Apart from that
commuting by car is very common in Germany - and until recently it has even
been subsidised by the state.

Andreas