No, not criticising or "snarking" at you. I am genuinely in awe of Col and Sally, whom I've known for donkey's years, and I do admire your stand, too: except for the times you categorise your fellow human beings as "cagers" who *all* drive and always drive because they're selfish bastards who screw everybody else and for no other reason. I don't criticise anybody for their mode of transport because I don't have a magic moral insight into why they do what they do. And having in my time used everything short of regular horse-riding as a mode of transport, it makes perfect sense to use a car to get to Cambridge with your daughter, your husband, a moses basket, and a static stand. But if you habitually call people who drive derogatory names, then a gentle, gentle ribbing about becoming One of Them yourself might be expected - even from people who think you're great, which, dammit, I do.

I am truly sorry to have offended you - I didn't think for a minute you would take it at all seriously.

And I did *genuinely* wonder about *eventually* using trains + a cargo bike because it's the kind of thing I used to think about when I was considering a bike-only set of choices. As it happened, that wasn't the choice I made, but DSFDF. One might consider it, or not.