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  1. GRRR, saw part of todays 'report' with Ann Widdecombe MP attacking
    cyclists, the www.gm.tv has a biased piece to support their prog, 2
    wheeled menace indeed.

    Shows their ignorance as they refer to the highway code as law,
    neatly omitting rule 51 which says do not ride more than 2 abreast.

    Ergo, you can ride 2 abreast and will car drivers please stop blowing
    their horns whne we do on quiet roads.

    Call to arms or what?

    Martyn

  2. "Martyn Bolt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    GRRR, saw part of todays 'report' with Ann Widdecombe MP attacking
    cyclists, the www.gm.tv has a biased piece to support their prog, 2
    wheeled menace indeed.

    Shows their ignorance as they refer to the highway code as law,
    neatly omitting rule 51 which says do not ride more than 2 abreast.

    Ergo, you can ride 2 abreast and will car drivers please stop blowing
    their horns whne we do on quiet roads.

    Call to arms or what?

    Martyn

    I saw about 10 seconds of Doris doing her usual ranting and switched off -
    literally. It was at the bit where she said words to the effect that when
    motorists break the law they are actively prosectuted but cyclists are not.
    She gave the example of when motorists jump red lights and when cyclists
    jump red lights. *Neither* should do it, and Doris's ranting of effectively
    the poor put-upon motorist makes me want to puke. She, as well as too many
    petrol-headed tosspots seem to view cyclists as non-motorists, as if we are
    some sort of separate species of sub-human, when a lot of us drive too...
    And why, of why... when they get 'a cyclist' in, does said cyclist have to
    resemble Swampy the eco-terrorist!!! BAH!!!!

    Cheers, helen s

  3. wafflycat said:

    "Martyn Bolt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    GRRR, saw part of todays 'report' with Ann Widdecombe MP attacking
    cyclists, the www.gm.tv has a biased piece to support their prog, 2
    wheeled menace indeed.

    Shows their ignorance as they refer to the highway code as law,
    neatly omitting rule 51 which says do not ride more than 2 abreast.

    Ergo, you can ride 2 abreast and will car drivers please stop blowing
    their horns whne we do on quiet roads.

    Call to arms or what?

    Martyn

    I saw about 10 seconds of Doris doing her usual ranting and switched off -
    literally. It was at the bit where she said words to the effect that when
    motorists break the law they are actively prosectuted but cyclists are not.
    She gave the example of when motorists jump red lights and when cyclists
    jump red lights. *Neither* should do it, and Doris's ranting of effectively
    the poor put-upon motorist makes me want to puke. She, as well as too many
    petrol-headed tosspots seem to view cyclists as non-motorists, as if we are
    some sort of separate species of sub-human, when a lot of us drive too...
    And why, of why... when they get 'a cyclist' in, does said cyclist have to
    resemble Swampy the eco-terrorist!!! BAH!!!!

    Cheers, helen s

    Was it Bob Davis ?

  4. "MSeries" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Cheers, helen s

    Was it Bob Davis ?

    Haven't a clue. Just saw person with dreadlocks & fungus on chin...

    Cheers, helen s

  5. wafflycat said:

    "MSeries" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Cheers, helen s

    Was it Bob Davis ?

    Haven't a clue. Just saw person with dreadlocks & fungus on chin...

    Cheers, helen s

    Unlikely to be Bob, he wasn't sporting such attire in his Arrivee
    picture !!!

  6. What really got me (and I had to leave the house when she said it!) was

    "OK, so a few motorists might occaisionally jump red lights but all
    cyclists do it"

    Well, I saw a bus and seven cars go through red lights at least three
    seconds into the red this morning and one cyclist who slowed, looked
    and sidled through safely (he wasn't splatted anyway).

    Robert

  7. MSeries said:


    wafflycat said:

    "MSeries" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    > Cheers, helen s

    Was it Bob Davis ?

    No, Bob was pencilled in but they rang him to say they didn't want him.

    Bin

  8. "bin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    MSeries said:


    wafflycat said:

    "MSeries" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    >> Cheers, helen s
    >
    > Was it Bob Davis ?

    No, Bob was pencilled in but they rang him to say they didn't want him.

    Bin

    If he doesn't have dreadlocks & fungus sprouting out of his chin, it may
    because he looks to normal to be a cyclist... because as we all know, and as
    is stated on the GMTV web site at

    http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=17902

    "cyclists are causing a storm"
    and are "two-wheeled menaces"

    Cheers, helen s

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