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>MatSav wrote:
>> 3. Place said printed paper under the driver's windscreen wiper!
>
>Remember to print it on rice-paper, because the driver is quite possibly
>going to make you eat it.
Would you get out of a tinnie with your identification number on and
assault a grey-haired woman in public? Probably CCTV public?
>
>I'm a cyclist, and I'm also a driver. I don't like anyone touching my bike,
>and I don't like anyone touching my car - even the wipers. No, you're
>unliklely to find me stuck on a yellow box... but the sort of driver who is,
>isn't going to be up for delicate negotiation on the finer points of
>driving.
Wow - I think you should keep your car in its box and not play with it.
If you take it outside birds will defaecate on it.
>
>Cyclists are a lot softer than the stuff they make cars out of.
You'd be surprised. Cars are made of very thin tinplate. A car that
tried to force me off the road at the Southampton Street pinch point was
appreciably damaged, without harming me or my bike at all.
This isn't relevant to an immobile car though, unless I lose my temper -
which is what I'm trying to get away from.
>Yes, I've no
>problem with an indirect PR campaign reminding them that there is a Highway
>Code out there - but if you start using cyclists to take direct action, you
>affect us all. The minority of bad cyclists have already got us listed as a
>group who cycle on footpaths, run red lights, wear Lycra without a licence
>and scare old grannies with our sirens.
>
I've waited patiently at that junction until it's my turn to move, and
then I'm obstructed by the car - it's taken its turn and then it's too
mean-spirited to let me have mine. If it doesn't want to be touched
(for pity's sake) it needn't be there. We're talking about bad
*drivers* here - and you have the cheek to call me a bad cyclist for
pointing it out to them?
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Sue ]
Bicycle helmets are really a bit of a scam.
They make most cyclists slightly less safe but there's money in selling them.