Victim of compulsive bike disorder!

[Nobody760]

I became sixty on November the 1st of last year and on
reaching this illustrious age I applied for and got my
free bus pass.

So some eight months later I have yet to use it. The reason
is that I am a victim compulsive bike disorder - despite all
the entreaties of my 'logical senses' I continue to travel
by bike - everywhere.

Is there a cure for this irrational behaviour or am I
doomed to two wheels for the rest of my (hopefully long)
journey of life?

PS - At last, at last I will get to see the Tour this year
as it is in the Pyrenees when I am!

[Graeme]

"nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk:

> Is there a cure for this irrational behaviour or am I
> doomed to two wheels for the rest of my (hopefully long)
> journey of life?
>

Sorry, it sounds like a terminal case. You'll be stuck with
it for decades
:-)

Graeme

[David Martin]

On 28/6/04 9:50 am, in article cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk,
"nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a cure for this irrational behaviour or am I
> doomed to two wheels for the rest of my (hopefully long)
> journey of life?

Yes. Eventually you will lose your sense of balance and will
then have to ...



.. buy a trike

..d

[Peter B]

"nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I became sixty on November the 1st of last year and on
> reaching this illustrious age I applied for and got my
> free bus pass.
>
> So some eight months later I have yet to use it. The
> reason is that I am a victim compulsive bike disorder -
> despite all the entreaties of my
'logical
> senses' I continue to travel by bike - everywhere.
>
> Is there a cure for this irrational behaviour or am I
> doomed to two wheels for the rest of my (hopefully long)
> journey of life?

Doomed Sir! Doomed! Doomed to spend the rest of your
hopefully long life not standing in a bl**dy bus shelter
peering expectantly down the road so you can eventually
attempt to sit next to an oversize person listening to a
Walkperson.

Pete

[Jeremy Parker]

"nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I became sixty on November the 1st of last year and on
> reaching
this
> illustrious age I applied for and got my free bus pass.
>
> So some eight months later I have yet to use it.

The London bus pass is great, because it's also a train
pass, and a tube pass. It even gives a discount on river
boats. Actually, the boats don't take bikes, alsthough I
suspect you could come to some arrangement with the crew.

The train territory goes out further than zone six
sometimes, too. It goes way into the Chilterns in the west,
and to Gravesend in the east. I live near the last zone six
station in the North of London, but now I can jump on
Thameslink, for free, and explore Surrey and such as well.

Jeremy Parker

[Paulmouk]

"Peter B" <peter28@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:cbpk60$92c$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>
> "nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk.
... ... ...
> Doomed Sir! Doomed! Doomed to spend the rest of your
> hopefully long life not standing in a bl**dy bus shelter
> peering expectantly down the road so you can eventually
> attempt to sit next to an oversize person listening to a
> Walkperson.
>
> Pete

Speaking from observation only (I haven't used a bus for
twenty years); buses arrive sooner and more frequently if
the passengers waiting at the stop stand well out into the
road and peer hopefully.

Paul

[Mark Thompson]

> The London bus pass is great, because it's also a train
> pass, and a tube pass. It even gives a discount on river
> boats. Actually, the boats don't take bikes, alsthough I
> suspect you could come to some arrangement with the crew.
>
> The train territory goes out further than zone six
> sometimes, too. It goes way into the Chilterns in the
> west, and to Gravesend in the east. I live near the last
> zone six station in the North of London, but now I can
> jump on Thameslink, for free, and explore Surrey and such
> as well.

And people moan about students?

Bloody freeloading pensioners. grrr.

[Dave Larrington]

Paulmouk wrote:

> Speaking from observation only (I haven't used a bus for
> twenty years); buses arrive sooner and more frequently if
> the passengers waiting at the stop stand well out into the
> road and peer hopefully.

You are so right. If I had a quid for every time the same
overweight schoolgirl jumped out in front of me at the
bottom of Stamford Hill in order to make the bus arrive with
more despatch, I'd be able to commute by gold-plated
helichopter.

And then I wouldn't.

--

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[Aloysius]

"nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>
> So some eight months later I have yet to use it. The
> reason is that I am a victim compulsive bike disorder -
> despite all the entreaties of my 'logical senses' I
> continue to travel by bike - everywhere.
>
> Is there a cure for this irrational behaviour or am I
> doomed to two wheels for the rest of my (hopefully long)
> journey of life?
>

I'm afraid that a glance in the CTC mag will confirm that
you are likely to suffer this affliction well into your 90s.

So you'd better enjoy it...

All the best,

Al

[Taywood]

Aloysius wrote:
> "nobody760" <nobody760@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:<cbom4q$on6$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>>
>> So some eight months later I have yet to use it. The
>> reason is that I am a victim compulsive bike disorder -
>> despite all the entreaties of my 'logical senses' I
>> continue to travel by bike - everywhere. Is there a
>> cure for this irrational behaviour or am I doomed to
>> two wheels for the rest of my (hopefully long) journey
>> of life?

> I'm afraid that a glance in the CTC mag will confirm
> that you are likely to suffer this affliction well into
> your 90s.

Does that same affliction extend to looking through
shop windows at the nice shiny metal components on
display inside?