I’m a popular cyclist – but only when I bring my toy poodle along for the ride
The Guardian -

It should not take a small dog to alert us all to the fact that cyclists are at-risk road usersI am a middle-aged man on a bicycle. I wear Lycra. According to the mainstream media, I’m a free-loading, red-light dodging, unregistered road warrior cruising on expensive cycle paths that would be better redesigned as traffic lanes.Yet every day I cycle, people smile at me. Tradies in utes lean out the window and give me the thumbs up. The other day a young woman stopped me and asked if she could...

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