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Simon Mason

Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all here:

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm

Simon

Geoff Pearson

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all here:
>
> http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm
>
> Simon
>
>

Where is it?

Simon Mason

"Geoff Pearson" <gspearson1647@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:vi25irecp7383e@corp.supernews.com...
> > Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all here:
> >
> > http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
>
> Where is it?

Here it is. Cycle track is not shown - truncated road is to the rhs of arrow head. Reckitt + Colman
bought the road and then closed it and the pub that was down there as well.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?G4F113365

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Simon Mason Anlaby East Yorkshire. 53°44'N 0°26'W http://www.simonmason.karoo.net (http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/)

Elyob

"Geoff Pearson" <gspearson1647@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:vi25irecp7383e@corp.supernews.com...
> > Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all here:
> >
> > http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
>
> Where is it?
>

I guess it's somewhere along here .. http://moors.uk.net/discover/index.php?mid=166

That's got to be one seriously hilly cycle route .. look at the travel on the suspension .. ;)

Geraint Jones

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote: ( Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason
at all here: ) ( http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm

Not that I want you to think that I am a pedant or anything, but I think they're only "advised" to
do so (for no obvious reason).

Digweed .. ;\)

Simon Mason tried to scribble ...

> Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all here:
>
> http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm
>
> Simon

I guess the fact that the route appears to cross a works entrance/exit may be something to do with
it. It _is_ only an advisory sign after all .. ;)

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Digweed

Stephen Gower

Geraint Jones <Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac-spam.uk.invalid> wrote:
>"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote: ( Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason
>at all here: ) ( http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm
>
>Not that I want you to think that I am a pedant or anything, but I think they're only "advised" to
>do so (for no obvious reason).

I always assume (with the lack of punctuation) that such signs are a statement of fact.

Ducks Quack.
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Selah

Simon Geller

I treat "cyclists dismount" signs like stop lines. You stop, you get off the bike, make sure
nothings coming, then you get back on and ride off again..

Adrian Boliston

"Simon Geller" <s.geller@no_spam.shef.ac.uk> wrote in message news:bfrb9q$dq8$1@hermes.shef.ac.uk...

> I treat "cyclists dismount" signs like stop lines. You stop, you get off the bike, make sure
> nothings coming, then you get back on and ride off again..

So if you were driving a car you would stop and *get out* of your car at a stop sign??

Digweed .. ;\)

Simon Geller tried to scribble ...

> I treat "cyclists dismount" signs like stop lines. You stop, you get off the bike, make sure
> nothings coming, then you get back on and ride off again..

Your choice, and there's nothing wrong with that .. ;)

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Digweed

Digweed .. ;\)

Succorso

Stephen Gower wrote:

> Geraint Jones <Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac-spam.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
>>"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote: ( Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason
>>at all here: ) ( http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm
>>
>>Not that I want you to think that I am a pedant or anything, but I think they're only "advised" to
>>do so (for no obvious reason).
>
>
> I always assume (with the lack of punctuation) that such signs are a statement of fact.
>
> Ducks Quack.

Instructions are circular signs with red borders - that sign is an "Information" sign, therefore not
obligatory.

I think.... ;)

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Succorso

Succorso

Geraint Jones

Stephen Gower <socks-netnews@earth.li> wrote: ( Geraint Jones
<Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac-spam.uk.invalid> wrote: ) >"Simon Mason"
<simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote: ( >( Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all here:
) > ) ( >( http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm ) > ( >Not that I want you to think that I am
a pedant or anything, but ) >I think they're only "advised" to do so (for no obvious reason). ( ) I
always assume (with the lack of punctuation) that such signs are
( astatement of fact.

Were it so it would be most misleading for surely it is not cyclists per se, but rather people who
happen to be on bicycles that dismount.

It may (beyond the fringe) be a loyal toast: Gentlemen lift the seat.

Gonzalez

Adrian Boliston wrote:

>"Simon Geller" <s.geller@no_spam.shef.ac.uk> wrote in message
>news:bfrb9q$dq8$1@hermes.shef.ac.uk...
>
>> I treat "cyclists dismount" signs like stop lines. You stop, you get off the bike, make sure
>> nothings coming, then you get back on and ride off again..
>
>So if you were driving a car you would stop and *get out* of your car at a stop sign??

No. You do what the sign says, stop. Am I mistaken, but aren't stop signs octagonal. What's the
meaning of an octagonal sign?
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Tony W

"Tim Woodall" <devnull@locofungus.org> wrote in message
news:slrnbi2nkq.4fd.devnull@pauli.locofungus.org...
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:14:56 +0100,
> >
> > No. You do what the sign says, stop. Am I mistaken, but aren't stop signs octagonal. What's the
> > meaning of an octagonal sign?
>
> It's the exception for instruction signs. The rest being blue - keep left, minimum speed etc.
> (Alternatively it is a warning sign - see below about give way)
>
> Give way is another oddity being upside down. Other warning signs are the other way up. (You could
> argue that the give way sign is an
instruction
> but there are also road markings to actually tell you where to stop)
>
> The round red border signs are the "don't do this" signs. Do not exceed the speed limit, do not
> turn right etc.
>
> The other oddity I can think of is the NSL sign (white with black
diagonal)
> which AIUI is a throwback from the non-standard road signs (before I was born - I don't know what
> else there might have been). Maybe Stop comes
into
> this category as well?
>
> Cyclists dismount sign is a rectangular blue sign. AFAICT this is a
motorway
> sign - no stopping, no u-turns etc so you had better start practicing mounting and dismounting at
> a run :-)

In days of old, when knights were bold we British had a set of signs all our own -- some other
European countries were also 'different'. Then, in a fit of harmonisation -- probably long before
the Common Market reached these shores, we all adopted a fairly similar set of signs.

In olden days we were commanded not merely to STOP but rather to HALT. Now being told to STOP is OK
but it doesn't carry the military authority, the shear RSM decibels of HALT.

HALT used to be written on a white sign board below a point down triangle in a circle.

The wimpy Europeans didn't like being shouted at by RSM's and couldn't agree on a word to say STOP
-- so they borrowed ours instead.

For a while (ISTR) the new harmonised signs where a bit unharmonised and confusing. Those pesky
Europeans used a non standard red octagon with STOP, we uses a point down triangle surrounded by a
red circle with either HALT or STOP in it.

Hey ho.

As for the NSL sign, the older amongst us still think of it as 'Any Speed You Like' -- i.e. a
derestriction sign and so part of the family with 'you can now overtake etc.

Of course most know that it isn't a 'real' derestriction sign but a throwback to an earlier age.
Some residents of northern provinces of this fair land still have trouble with this fine but
historic distinction.

Signs with red circles are don't do, point down triangles are do and point up triangles
are warnings.

T

The Mark

Geraint Jones wrote:
> Stephen Gower <socks-netnews@earth.li> wrote: ( Geraint Jones
> <Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac-spam.uk.invalid> wrote: ) >"Simon Mason"
> <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote: ( >( Cyclists are asked to dismount for no reason at all
> here: ) > ) ( >( http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfarce.htm ) > ( >Not that I want you to think
> that I am a pedant or anything, but ) >I think they're only "advised" to do so (for no obvious
> reason). ( ) I always assume (with the lack of punctuation) that such signs are ( a statement
> of fact.
>
> Were it so it would be most misleading for surely it is not cyclists per se, but rather people who
> happen to be on bicycles that dismount.
>
> It may (beyond the fringe) be a loyal toast: Gentlemen lift the seat.

I hope I'm not starting a roumor here but as I left the house this morning I thought I heard on BBC
Breakfast something about a Geraint Jones getting married. If it's you, congratulations and I hope
the day goes well. If it's not, have a good day anyway.
--
Mark Road bike, Mountain bike and I'm getting something special built for me (I hope it will
arrive soon).

Geraint Jones

"the Mark" <the_mark@hotmail.com> wrote:
( Ihope I'm not starting a roumor here but as I left the house this morning I ) thought I heard on
BBC Breakfast something about a Geraint Jones getting ( married. If it's you, ...

No, not if it was on the haunted goldfishbowl: which one was that, was it the Kent cricketer Geraint
Owen Jones? It is a distressingly common name, it could have been almost anyone. Well, almost anyone
called geraint Jones. I used to have a web page with a list of all the Geraint Joneses I had been
accused of being but it got to be a bit of a pain to maintain it. (I'm still struggling with the
idea that Jonathan Agnew is chairman of the Nationwide building society.)

Besides which we'd keep our wedding almost secret.

No, really, we would.

Tim Woodall

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:22:12 +0000 (UTC), Geraint Jones
<Geraint.Jones@wolfson.oxford.ac-spam.uk.invalid> wrote:
> "the Mark" <the_mark@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ( Ihope I'm not starting a roumor here but as I left the house this morning I ) thought I heard
> on BBC Breakfast something about a Geraint Jones getting ( married. If it's you, ...
>
> bit of a pain to maintain it. (I'm still struggling with the idea that Jonathan Agnew is chairman
> of the Nationwide building society.)
>
> Besides which we'd keep our wedding almost secret.
>
> No, really, we would.

You really think you could keep a wedding between you and Jonathan Agnew secret? :-D

Tim.

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The Mark

Geraint Jones wrote:
> "the Mark" <the_mark@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ( Ihope I'm not starting a roumor here but as I left the house this morning I ) thought I heard
> on BBC Breakfast something about a Geraint Jones getting ( married. If it's you, ...
>
> No, not if it was on the haunted goldfishbowl: which one was that, was it the Kent cricketer
> Geraint Owen Jones? It is a distressingly common name, it could have been almost anyone. Well,
> almost anyone called geraint Jones. I used to have a web page with a list of all the Geraint
> Joneses I had been accused of being but it got to be a bit of a pain to maintain it. (I'm still
> struggling with the idea that Jonathan Agnew is chairman of the Nationwide building society.)
>
> Besides which we'd keep our wedding almost secret.
>
> No, really, we would.

Sorry about that. Although I would say that where I come from (Edinburgh) Geraint is not common at
all, in fact you are the first Geraint I've been aware of, (I'm not into cricket).
--
Mark Road bike, Mountain bike and I'm getting something special built for me (I hope it will
arrive soon).