UK a good place to cycle?

I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least partly on
the lack of shoulders on the roads. How can I convince him he's wrong?

(He's from BC)

cheers,
clive

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Clive George wrote:

I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least partly on
the lack of shoulders on the roads. How can I convince him he's wrong?

I don't imagine you can - once someone is convinced that cycling
with the rest of the traffic is fundamentally dangerous, it normally
proves impossible to convince them otherwise.

regards, Ian SMith
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"Clive George" wrote in message
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I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least partly
on the lack of shoulders on the roads. How can I convince him he's wrong?

(He's from BC)

cheers,
clive

British Cycling?
He's very, very, very old?

Loads of people cycle over here every single day and remarkably, stay alive
and uninjured... even when cycling through towns and cities (gasp of
amazement!) Perhaps your friend thinks cycling Brits are particularly dim as
they would seem to have no regard for their personal safety, on his logic...

Cheers, helen s

"Clive George" wrote in

(He's from BC)

Wow! that's old.

On 03/06/2006 11:46, Clive George said,

(He's from BC)

I think he may be a bit old to start cycling :-)

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Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

in message , Clive
George ') wrote:

I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least
partly on the lack of shoulders on the roads. How can I convince him
he's wrong?

You don't cycle on the shoulder, you cycle on the road. That's why it's
a /better/ place to cycle.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; I'd rather live in sybar-space

Clive George wrote:
I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least
partly on the lack of shoulders on the roads.

Shoulders?

"TheMgt" wrote in message
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Clive George wrote:
I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least
partly on the lack of shoulders on the roads.

Shoulders?

Possibly what you can land on if you go ar$e over t!t over the handlebars?

Clive George wrote:
I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least
partly on the lack of shoulders on the roads. How can I convince him
he's wrong?



Why bother.
Unless his ridiculous beliefs are stopping you from cycling, let him get
on with it.
Life's too short.

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:58:15 +0000, TheMgt wrote:

Clive George wrote:
I think so. But there's a guy who thinks otherwise, based at least
partly on the lack of shoulders on the roads.

Shoulders?

If the OP's friend is from British Columbia rather than Before Christ he
has been brainwashed into thinking that the debris-strewn hard shoulder of
a fast road is a good place to cycle. Perhaps he should be shown the AA
and RAC advice saying that the hard shoulder is an extremely dangerous
place for a /car/ to be!


Mike