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On Jun 23, 3:24=A0pm, Ben  wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:14:49 +0100, "AndrewR" > > > >  wrote: > >"Eddie"  wrote in message > >news:9t17h6-euc.ln1@deguello.org... > >> AndrewR wrote: > >>> Well as I've been taking more of an interest in people-powered 2 whee= lers > >>> recently[1] I thought I'd have a look in on UKRC. > > >>> That was a mistake, wasn't it? =A0What a load of toss. > >> > > >> It used to be okay. > > >> Perhaps all the cyclists on ukrm should stage a coordinated mass takeo= ver? > > >Do we have to cycle there or can we go in the car? > > Well, it's the information superhighway, isn't it? =A0That implies > cycles should be on a cycletrack next to it.

They *should* be, but in the case of the nutters, they'll be deliberately and spitefully slowing down the faster, more important traffic.

Unfortunately URC now has a nucleus of car-haters (many of whom hilariously say "I don't hate cars", despite just happening to support every anti-motorist measure, even those which make things less safe for cyclists, e.g. speed cameras and keeping motorbikes out of bus lanes in London). The car-haters are relentlessly obnoxious towards anyone who expresses the "wrong" opinions, meaning that most if not all "moderate" cyclists in URC have long since left.

The group now almost entirely consists of mentally unbalanced, lying idiots who are anti-motorist first, and cyclists a distant second (if at all, in the case of the likes of Spindrift), and who agree with each other on everything all the time (so what's the point of having a discussion group?), with just a very small number of "dissenters" (and the car-haters are even trying to get rid of them by starting a new group, which they hilariously refer to as "moderated", when what they really mean is that they're just trying to censor those pesky people who dare to go on URC and show that they're wrong about things).