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The Institute of Advanced Motorists is recommending bicycles as the best
way of getting round London in the Tube strike and says "taking the car is not going to be a viable option for most." http://www.iam.org.uk/latest_news/ge...iththeiam.html Tony |
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On 5 Oct, 01:05, "The Medway Handyman" davidl...@no-spam-
blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Tony Raven wrote: The Institute of Advanced Motorists is recommending bicycles as the best way of getting round London in the Tube strike and says "taking the car is not going to be a viable option for most." No **** sherlock? However, on the other 364 days of the year.... Only one strike a year? How is fatty Crow going to justify his £100k salary with one poxy strike? -- Simon Mason |
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" wrote in message ... On 5 Oct, 01:05, "The Medway Handyman" davidl...@no-spam- blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Tony Raven wrote: The Institute of Advanced Motorists is recommending bicycles as the best way of getting round London in the Tube strike and says "taking the car is not going to be a viable option for most." No **** sherlock? However, on the other 364 days of the year.... Only one strike a year? How is fatty Crow going to justify his £100k salary with one poxy strike? -- Simon Mason Hi there Simon I remember that several months ago you decided to abandon urc when you stated that you were being harassed over the source of your postings. and were migrating to "urcm" The trouble was then, as it is now, is that you insist on engageing in endless baiting of the same few "trolls" ( I don't like the term but it serves its purpose). So here you are again doing exactly the same as before and, as before, you do yourself and other "cyclists" no favours at all with this endless wrangling. I confess that, although I cycle every day and use my little Suziki Swift about once every fortnight, I have come to consider myself just as an odinary "person". I certainly am not a "motorist" ( although I hate to think how many thousand of miles I have driven in my life). And I am cerrtainly not a "cyclist" or a "pedestrian" None of those term actually ought to be applied to anyone -- I am just a person who does an awful lot of ordinary things in any day. I shun being labelled in this way. I am not a "cyclist" -- cycling is a very small part of my whole life -- it is even a very small part of my 24 hour day. I have got weary of all the interminable rubbish that is posted by foolish people who take up impossible stances and refuse to jump off their pedestal. I find that there are just a many "mission cyclists" as "mission motorists" and just "mission posters" And here is my own mission -- I will not waste my precious last few years of my life reading such twaddle that you -- with many others -- insist in endless repitition of your particular foibles. From Trevor A Panther In South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk |
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:28:04 +0100, Trevor A Panther boggled us with:
" wrote in message ... On 5 Oct, 01:05, "The Medway Handyman" davidl...@no-spam- blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Tony Raven wrote: The Institute of Advanced Motorists is recommending bicycles as the best way of getting round London in the Tube strike and says "taking the car is not going to be a viable option for most." No **** sherlock? However, on the other 364 days of the year.... Only one strike a year? How is fatty Crow going to justify his £100k salary with one poxy strike? -- Simon Mason Hi there Simon I remember that several months ago you decided to abandon urc when you stated that you were being harassed over the source of your postings. and were migrating to "urcm" The trouble was then, as it is now, is that you insist on engageing in endless baiting of the same few "trolls" ( I don't like the term but it serves its purpose). So here you are again doing exactly the same as before and, as before, you do yourself and other "cyclists" no favours at all with this endless wrangling. I confess that, although I cycle every day and use my little Suziki Swift about once every fortnight, I have come to consider myself just as an odinary "person". I certainly am not a "motorist" ( although I hate to think how many thousand of miles I have driven in my life). And I am cerrtainly not a "cyclist" or a "pedestrian" None of those term actually ought to be applied to anyone -- I am just a person who does an awful lot of ordinary things in any day. I shun being labelled in this way. I am not a "cyclist" -- cycling is a very small part of my whole life -- it is even a very small part of my 24 hour day. I have got weary of all the interminable rubbish that is posted by foolish people who take up impossible stances and refuse to jump off their pedestal. I find that there are just a many "mission cyclists" as "mission motorists" and just "mission posters" And here is my own mission -- I will not waste my precious last few years of my life reading such twaddle that you -- with many others -- insist in endless repitition of your particular foibles. Was this meant to be sent via email? Or is it some kind of ironic reply? -- Mike P |
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On 5 Oct, 08:28, "Trevor A Panther" wrote:
And here is my own mission *-- I will not waste my precious last few years of my life reading such twaddle that you -- with many others -- insist in endless repitition of your particular foibles. A good decision Trevor, if only I was as sensible as you. I only came back because a poster here expressed glee at a female cyclist I know getting crushed under a shed lorry load. He made out that this grandmother and carers death was god's way of punishing cyclists for having no lights on in his neck of the woods, or words to that effect. I decided to stay around for a while as well as posting to ucrm. I am sorry that you find my posts "twaddle" as I try and keep them as sensible and level headed as possible without having to resort to personal attacks or foul abuse as some posters seem to when they start to use the plot. Since I also own and maintain a car, I am also a motorist, but as this is a cycling ng, talking about speed cameras and the like would be OT, so I try not to bring too many aspect of my car driving experiences in as they would be OT. I could bore people to death about my time driving around in 25 European countries and their differing road cultures. Hope to see you around for many more than just a "precious last few years". All the best. -- Simon Mason |
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"Mrcheerful" wrote in message ... wrote: A good decision Trevor, if only I was as sensible as you. I only came back because a poster here expressed glee at a female cyclist I know getting crushed under a shed lorry load. I said that God moves in mysterious ways, the method of death was worthy of any TV show, such as 1001 ways to die. I fail to see how, when somone dies as a result of a road traffic accident, it could be deemed as worthy of a TV show. Perhaps if the person who died was doing something incredibly stupid and incredibly dangerous there may be some point. But this was merely a case of an unfortunate person, doing something generally regarded as quite safe, but being involved in a fatal accident. I also questioned the lack of common sense of cyclists in using a road that is known to be very dangerous. and it is quite possible that she caused the lorry to swerve and shed its load. (no pun intended) Anything is quite possible. It is quite possible the poor unfortunate woman was pulling wheelies while riding against the traffic - unlikely, but quite possible, and in which case there might be some reason to scoff at her death. But as far as we know, this was not the case. All the woman was guilty of doing is riding a bike on a busy roundabout. There is no evidence that she caused anyone to swerve. I know that cyclists often do stupid things. They often pull out of side roads or onto roundabouts without looking or giving way. But the really stupid thing they do is not take into account how stupid drivers might be and what *they* might do. Things like lorries taking roundabouts too fast while trying to pass a cyclist to close and losing control of their vehicle. Which seems to me the most likely thing that happened whether this happened or not. |
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On 5 Oct, 10:52, "mileburner" wrote:
Things like lorries taking roundabouts too fast while trying to pass a cyclist to close and losing control of their vehicle. Which seems to me the most likely thing that happened whether this happened or not. This is borne out by the fact that four lorries have overturned on four roundabouts on this road in recents months. The drivers are taking them at far too fast a speed, the last one actually overturned landing on a cycle path. http://www.thisishullandeastriding.c...l/article.html -- Simon Mason |
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On 05/10/2010 10:52, mileburner wrote:
wrote: wrote: A good decision Trevor, if only I was as sensible as you. I only came back because a poster here expressed glee at a female cyclist I know getting crushed under a shed lorry load. I said that God moves in mysterious ways, the method of death was worthy of any TV show, such as 1001 ways to die. I fail to see how, when somone dies as a result of a road traffic accident, it could be deemed as worthy of a TV show. ... Nevertheless, I am sure I recall seeing a TV programme ("show" is hardly the right word) on more or less that very subject - cyclists being killed by collision with left-turning lorries in London. |
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