Grolsch advert

Not Responding of said:

Anyone else seen the Grolsch poster ads? A shapely female backside
astride what looks like a Brooks saddle and a box of beers on the rack.
You've been cycling too long when you realise you're paying more
attention to the brand of saddle than to either the [censored] or the beer.

Yes, fleetingly on a bus shelter I was cycling past. Couldn't work out what
on earth it was trying to sell, as the overall image was too confusing.
Suspect it won't sell much beer because no-one will remember what brand is
being advertised.
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Not Responding said:

Anyone else seen the Grolsch poster ads? A shapely female backside
astride what looks like a Brooks saddle and a box of beers on the rack.
You've been cycling too long when you realise you're paying more
attention to the brand of saddle than to either the [censored] or the beer.

On Monday I was behind a young woman who was standing up on her pedals
and waving her shapely bum in the air, I suspect because she was on
a borrowed bike. I did also notice the saddle she wasn't sitting on was
a Brooks, and that it was a mixte frame similar to the basis of this
recumbent: http://www.mile43.com/peterson/wb.html.
I resisted the temptation to follow her straight through a red traffic
light (there wasn't anything coming the other way).

Not Responding said:

Anyone else seen the Grolsch poster ads? A shapely female backside
astride what looks like a Brooks saddle and a box of beers on the rack.
You've been cycling too long when you realise you're paying more
attention to the brand of saddle than to either the [censored] or the beer.

Well, it caught my attention from the bus[1] this morning.

Forgot to add:

[1] I was using a bus as I knew I'd be spending the working day at
various meetings and travelling by taxi and I didn't want to have to
trek back to the office to collect my bike at the end of the day.

I'd forgotten how damn slow buses are. Home to work takes me under 35
minutes on a bike; even allowing 10 mins to change into office rig only
brings the door to desk time to 45 mins. If I take the bus, I'll be
actually on it for 31 minutes to cover only 11km. I also have to add 20
minutes or more of walking to and from bus stops. That's 50 mins door to
desk.

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Responding <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I'd forgotten how damn slow buses are. Home to work takes me under 35
minutes on a bike; even allowing 10 mins to change into office rig only
brings the door to desk time to 45 mins. If I take the bus, I'll be
actually on it for 31 minutes to cover only 11km. I also have to add 20
minutes or more of walking to and from bus stops. That's 50 mins door
to desk.

My journey to work is just over 5.5 miles through central London
(crudely measured on a Collins London street atlas).

On a bike if I try hard I can do this in under 25 minutes, door to door,
depending on how much I need to stop for red lights and at pedestrian
crossings, prevailing traffic conditions and a favourable wind.

On the most direct bus route without changing it takes at least an hour,
and up to an hour and a half, including 5-10 minute walks at both ends.

I've not driven there from home during weekday rush hour, but judging by
the stalled traffic waiting to get onto the King's Road where it becomes
New King's Road, I'd say it would take as least as long as a bus
journey. And I'd have to pay congestion charge (the zone is to be
extended into the area I travel through), and for a parking space at
work.

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