Feature: Big Cycle Turnout at Fruitstock

I happened to walk into Regents Park this past Sunday. Their annual big festival, sponsored this year by Innocent drinks and serviced by many organic rather than particularly green suppliers of food, drew hordes tens of thousands even in Police-count terms. AND THERE WERE LOADS OF CYCLES THERE.

The cycles were ridden by people we don't see at meetings or at Bikefest; the pictures show a variety of very ordinary bikes, old bikes, even an single-gear original Moulton not looking like a restoration project.

If we wish to speak to cyclists who don't get our normal messages, this would be a place to leaflet, harangue and maybe even have an official stall. We wouldn't need stewards, no messing with loans of bikes and horrible or not kids trying it on. . . . no crystals and home-brewed sandals either. Fun.

And there was no policing of the riders who rode safely among the throngs.

The weather was very helpful, of course.

They travelled by all means, including but not predominantly at all, by cycle.

But we don't want percentages, we want absolute numbers, and that is what was there

The website of the Fruitstock festival is here