At last I'm a Real Cyclist!

David Hansen

On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:51:34 +0100 someone who may be "Dave
Larrington" <smert.spamionam@privacy.net> wrote this:-

>> That's the place as made famous by Daniel Cadden...
>
>And PC Mark Milton:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/...ire/4669594.stm

The same idiot was involved in both cases
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/aug/18/greenpolitics.uk>.
"The magistrate involved, district judge Bruce Morgan".

Presumably Mr Morgan os a petrol-head who thinks that mere cyclists
should not be on the road and at least some motorists should be able
to drive as fast as they feel like.



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Tim Hall

On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:13:38 +0100, lardyninja <lardyninja@gmx.net>
wrote:

>I think I now count myself as a real cyclist.
>
>This morning as I was overtaking a rather fit girl, instead of [1]
>checking out her @rse I was checking her rear wheel to try to find where
>the strange noise was coming from. [2]

I had a similar experience last summer, riding across London Town
Devine. A vision of lovlieness in a Little Black Dress swooshed out of
a side road. She cut through the traffic like it wasn't there. She
had but one sprocket.

And then I noticed she was on a single speed, not a fixed.

Rather like Billy Bragg "and then she cut her hair, and I stopped
loving her"


>
>[1] Well, alright, maybe not "instead of" ;-)
>
>[2] It was a heavy breathing sound.

I fixed your foot note for you.


--

Tim

I understand very little of what's being discussed
but for some reason it's fascinating.

(Jon Thompson, urs)

David Hansen

On Thu, 22 May 2008 16:44:16 +0100 someone who may be Tim Hall
<timhall@nospamtoday.clara.co.uk> wrote this:-

>I had a similar experience last summer, riding across London Town
>Devine. A vision of lovlieness in a Little Black Dress swooshed out of
>a side road. She cut through the traffic like it wasn't there. She
>had but one sprocket.

You were looking at her bike?



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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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Mark T

David Hansen writtificated

>>I had a similar experience last summer, riding across London Town
>>Devine. A vision of lovlieness in a Little Black Dress swooshed out of
>>a side road. She cut through the traffic like it wasn't there. She
>>had but one sprocket.
>
> You were looking at her bike?

I have the same problem

Nick

Martin wrote:

> [1] The first time the passenger called me a n*gger, and I don't even
> have a mild tan.

A cyclist is the nigger of the road ;o)

Nick

Ian Smith wrote:

> I think this is right - my old (good) route was on country roads
> between two smallish towns. No-one could have expected to blast down
> it - they are almost bound to meet a horse or pedestrians in teh road
> or something slow-moving. My new route goes from a junction of the
> M25 along an A-road to a junction with the dual-carriageway A3 and on
> into a larger town.
>
> I'm convinced some drivers 'cut the corner' from A3 to M25 (or vice
> versa) and get irate when their 'cleverness' doesn't work and they
> find themselves behind a 12mph bicycle when they could have been doing
> 70 on the trunk roads.
>


I see that in outer London it is the driver who use narrow rat runs who
seem to get most angry about being held up and who drive most dangerously.


> Others seem to have the mindset that once they get out of the town
> they'll be on the A3 and properly on their way - forgetting the
> stretch of narrow and busy A-road. They get irate when they can't hit
> motorway speeds as soon as they are out of the town.
>
>> The effect may also be connected with drivers' terror of being seen
>> to hold up other drivers.
>
> That too - the road is busy enough that if anyone slows for a bike
> they will immediately accumulate a line behind them. That seems to be
> absolutely taboo.
>

I think a lot of drivers are happy if the cyclist makes it impossible
for them to overtake because then it is not their fault.