Yesterday we brought you news of a prison that’s using bike-power to generate electricity for televisions. If that appeals to you, but you’re not in the mood for trying to get sent to prison in order to benefit from it, then it turns out that you can also pay for the privilege in a hotel in Copenhagen. They throw in sweeteners like a free meal for anyone hitting a target of the amount of electricity they generate, and the chance to monitor your progress on an iPhone (not something I imagine they do in the prison as the phones might disappear quite quickly), but in many ways they’re offering the prison experience in luxury surroundings, albeit with the chance to go and regain the calories in the bar later.
In other news, you might have noticed that there’s an election brewing. A giveaway is the colour coding in the newspapers and journalists struggling to get words like “Hustings” into print at any opportunity. There have already been a few discussions in the media about how cyclists should be voting. To be perfectly honest I think that cycling isn’t really the big political issue that it’s been made into. Whether you ride to work, or anywhere else, is more down to the way you feel than to any government incentives to try and get you onto a bike. Sure, an infrastructure is nice, and a bike to work scheme is a pain free way to get a bike, but you won’t actually ride it unless you want to. Something like cycling is only ever going to be a choice you make that is entirely separate from your political views (assuming you weren’t doing it simply for the benefits to the environment) and cyclists cover people from all sectors and political leanings. Sure it should be encouraged and barriers not put in the way, but if you want to ride you will whoever is running the country.
One thing is clear, however. You most certainly should not vote for UKIP. As if you needed another reason.
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