I want to gage what you guys think about this issue: especialy for those that live in big cities like London. Do you like the concept of people on bicycles to work?

they anger me beyond the capacity for rational thought!!

I detest bicycles and those who ride to professional jobs on them. They have such a dispicable lack of dignity i am utterly disgusted by it. If someone from my Firm trotted up sweaty with a bike and a yellow vest and tried to enter i am sure they would fire him on the spot. I am bewildered at how some people have no self respect

I have to say I do chuckle when I see huge Ford Transit Max vans tailgating cyclists. I have sympathy for the cyclist, but if I hogged the entire road, not enabling other traffic to get past whilst moving along at 8mph, I'd expect people to get pretty angry with me too.Having said that I'm all for anything which gets us away from the 'metrosexual' culture of London where men spend £700 on suits and £300 on shoes. Too much of the consultancy industry is based on polished consultants, dressed up like fashion models whilst talking utter cr@p and socialising in over-priced wine bars. Give me the old knowledgable dude who turns up on his motorbike wearing a t-shirt and jeans any day.

"not enabling other traffic to get past whilst moving along at 8mph, I'd expect people to get pretty angry with me too"Yeah right...I often thought that as I sailed passed all the stationary traffic in London on my bike. If you believe it is bikes causes traffic jams in London you are seriously delluded.I cycled to work whilst consulting (base office and clients) and had no problems at all, obviously only where places had showers and changing rooms etc (and not on days where I needed to be in multiple locations). You are in before most staff on client site and it was often a point of conversation with clients as many of them / their workers cycled in so made you appear a bit more like them.

Also why are cyclists always so damn smug? Were i not such an all round good egg, I'd laughingly shove sticks in their spokes, and watch them fly!!

"Also why are cyclists always so damn smug"Because it costs nothing (excluding upfront capital) to get places and you arrive quicker.A real "value add strategy" in consulting terms.

rubbish. cycling makes you arrive sweaty and looking like a delivery courrier. If that is the image your firms portrays, then fine. That speaks volumes. And BTW you DO slow trafic down, and therefore INCREASE pollution. Everytime I see a cyclist take a red light i pray that a 16 wheeler comes out and makes a stamp out of him.its the 21st century. wear a suit. learn to shave. look presentable.

Wow - so many angry people and so much vitriol.Sounds like you need some exercise to lower the blood pressure. I have a bike I can lend you...I ride to the office 3 days a week. I average 19mph, which is so much quicker than any form of motorised transport, public or otherwise. I carry my week's shirts etc into the office in a smart black bag (to please all you shallow critics/ snappy dressers) and I'm invariably the first into the office, so I get showered and changed without exposing my lycra-clad legs to the rest of the office.Why so angry if I want to be healthy? Why so offended if I choose not to travel to work in a suit? You make youselves look like very bitter little people.

im happy losers like you exist otherwise there would be less people to make fun of. keep pedalling boy.

In reply to haha, couldn't agree with you more its no one elses business how you get to work. Do those who drive look down on those who take the bus?!

uhm yes. what a silly question. wouldnt you rather be in my nice s class than in a stinky buss packed full of immigrants?

Some of you guys really need to extract your heads from your derrieres, move on and make way for a new breed

there's a guy here who constantly causes a traffic hold up through cycling to work, however he can pull a seven second wheelie so, every cloud.On the subject of cyclists I remember a taxi trip moons ago which involved one of the cab members hurling a grape at a cyclist as the cab sped by. It then rounded a corner and stopped in the London traffic, the cyclist caught up with the cab and gave the guy an earful. Needless to say the guy wasn't too worried as it was a cyclist doing the shouting.

glad to see u r all working hard to dispell the perception that consultants are cun ts

I get less sweaty cycling to work than I would on the tube. Plenty of bikes at my place of work, and a changing room with showers.

have you ever asked yourself why people at accenture / kpmg etc dont have to wear ties, can come in not shaven and on bikes etc and sometimes even wear colored jeans, and people at MBB and IB have to be more formal?Just fft.

Igor,No - I haven't asked this, and I'm not sure I see the relevance. I'm sure you've got a point so brilliant I'm not bright enough to get it.And what does fft mean?

Ferociously Fast Tricyle?

Fastidiously Filthy Taxman?

it means food for thought. The reason people that work at accenture can come in dressing poorly is the same, in essence, as why a builder can show his behind when leaning over. a stereotype, without doubt, but still true.

Ah - I get it:You mean that they're straight-talking and don't hide behind euphemisms!Or is it so that other people can pour soup down their cracks?

in the delivery vs dithering debate you'll always get the odd bitter strat jock. diddums.