But of course the initial mainstream media fuss is about BMW cars not their motorbikes, or indeed any other brand of bike or scooter. But I suspect that will change – or one of the abiding memories for many in the summer of 2012, will be the grim business of trying to get there and back across London to where they live or stay.
You see it's all very well for London Mayor Boris & his 'experts' to try and "stamp out car use" and go by shiny new blue trains, but most people ain't going to be anywhere near where the trains trundle to and from – and anyway this will only work as long as we don't get the wrong leaves on the line etc.. What is even more scary though is that the suits in charge of the logistics for the games want "100% of spectators to go by public transport cycle or foot"! This means that every day throughout the 2012 London Olympics, tens of thousands more people than usual will be trying to squeeze into buses and trains that are already full to bursting when most want to travel.
There are of course many ways to move people and stuff around London and out way beyond the East-End where most of the games will be. And, I have used every one – from a bicycle and shank's' pony to the latest thing in bus and rail.
But the most reliable and efficient mode – by about a million times, is going by motorbike or scooter. And this is a major reason why that's what I do more often than not – despite the crap traffic & red lights & bozos meandering into my path 'cos they're on the phone or pissed or just have their head in cloud cuckoo-land.
So my guess is that once London gets rammed with zillions of competitors, spectators and top bananas, a significant number of them are going to go by a PTW of some sort – or wish to F**K they had!
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