Best way to travel 5 miles to a train station?

What about the action replays?

Tony

 

What about the head on collisions?

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Cough! I do the former and I'm here. But then I'm also a member of the
CTC. Does that mean I'm schizophrenic?

Tony

 

I'll get back to you tomorrow with my witty riposte

Tony ;-)

 

I hope you do, typing flames are frequently the last resort of a half-
witted bufoon.

 

I take you're not a regular then? Or are your observations based on your
experiences in this thread?

I appreciate that this is a troll, but regardless of this, there are
issues here regarding road safety. For the record I usually cruise at
just over 20mph, and go down hills at up to 48mph (Fastest so far) but
more often at around 35mph. I am a member of the CTC, shake my fist (Or
more often swear) at idiots who try to kill me, can't stand rambling and
have no garden. I have no idea what a Sam Brown belt is and will only
vote Green when I believe that they have some realistic policies.

Where do I fit into your neat two types of cyclist pigeonholes? In
fact... I think that you'd be hard pushed to categorise most cyclists so
easily. Do your chilled cycling friends not react to bad driving?

Jon (Who ought to know by now, not to play with trolls!)

 

Just supposing, like, with the red hair and all, maybe he grew up and
became a biker, and having turned against his own kind now lives among
humans, inviting sporadic retribution from the Woodland Alliance Suicide
Squad?

 

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Thus becoming a Rufty Tufty, obviously.

If such retribution involves early morning Sleep Intervention and
Deprivation by DJ Woodpigeon and the Coo-Coo Crew, followed by
Heavyweight Avian Tapdancing in Pit Byeuts on the flat roof of his
bedroom, you may be close to the mark.

 

There's your problem I think. If I could remember only one occasion of
poor driving endangering me when on my bike then I'd see your point. But
I can remember many (and have forgotten the details of more), so I can't.

Still, must remember to stop feeding the trolls, even if the
cross-posting between urc, ukrm and uk.t can have beneficial side-effects.

 

Then I should imagine you're fortunate to cycle in a numpty-poor zone. I
should estimate about one near miss a week, and that's excluding the
excesses of the clue-free sub-Deltas that most bus companies employ in
London Town Devine.

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Just to clarify, how do you know that the actual impact speed was
40mph.

(Just to let you know, I am that 10% too, possibly. The car was doing
mph when it put on the brakes. But the actual impact speed is
unknown.)60

I didn't get to fly through the air. :-(



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The kind of roads that do not have any accessible space to the side
are usually in areas where there are no bus service along that route.

Again you phrase this as a convenience thing. I fail to see how it
could be more convenient for the pedestrian.

 

Only by what some of my audience told me later that evening. My leg
dented the bonnet and my shoulder put the windscreen through with my
head putting a small dent in the roof.

I don't recall much more than the initial impact, then later coming
round about 30 feet further down the road than where I started. Then
standing up, looking at the car, and passing out.

Ached a bit the next day, I did.

 

And for the folk who step off the pavement with right of way who get
hit?

Or the drivers who deliberately drive into pedestrians bcause they've
dared to jaywalk?



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Then this explains a lot about your worldview. Just because you
weren't allowed to, does not mean we should withdraw this ability and
experience from all future children.

You're assuming clear lines of sight. Unfortunately, drivers drive
fast even where the road is curved, or there are other obstacles to
clear sight lines.

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One serving of paté coming up:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3601008.stm

A two-year-old Birmingham boy has died in hospital after being struck in
the city by a car which failed to stop.

Police said the white Toyota MR2 dragged him along Burney Lane in the
Alum Rock area for around 300 yards at about 1910 BST on Wednesday.

The boy, from Ward End, who has not been named, died in hospital
overnight and a 13-year-old girl who was also hit is in a comfortable
condition.

The car was later found abandoned in Pan Croft in Bromford.


Tony

 

This is / was a serious discussion. ;-)

Nah, I have very bright lights instead!

The problem is that most of those characteristics are displayed by the
first group of cyclists that you described.

Then you a lucky man who lives in a peaceful area. I count on seeing at
least one bit of poor driving (Forcing me to brake suddenly or swerve)
per day of commuting (~15 miles). Some days (Seems to be the last
Tuesday of the month... not really sure why!) it can be three or four
and at least once a month I come very close to a serious incident caused
by someone cutting me up, turning across me, swerving into the bus lane
without checking their mirrors etc. This is why I (and many other
cyclists) get wound up. I have a strange habit of taking it personally
when people try to kill me!

Jon