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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2589d1$0$2496$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Watch out, there's a thief about. Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:42:41 +0100 References: <63cb5674-a6f8-414e-aa47-40adedd0bea4@l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <9649dc5e-a303-45d0-a1a3-2373cb8d0bf5@m10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <4e241847$0$2492$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <8so827pc481ogi5vbicd6lfl4o91f9qiad@4ax.com> Lines: 57 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8so827pc481ogi5vbicd6lfl4o91f9qiad@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: b3079c50.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=KOTD3HSXSiOe@hNFIWl:K@0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnENDZ?2j:BGS9YB`:ITG5aA:cGSCNk4RQ\JgI X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 3684 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:817644

On 18/07/2011 17:50, Phil W Lee wrote: > Nuxx Bar  considered Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:25:59 > +0100 the perfect time to write: > >> On 18/07/2011 10:16, Simon Mason wrote: >>> A case in point. >>> >>> QUOTE: >>> >>> "Mr Plested was paralysed in a motorcycling accident in 1999 in which >>> he broke his neck and back. >>> He took up cycling two years later on the advice of his >>> physiotherapist but can only pedal with his right leg. The bikes are >>> specially adapted for his use. >>> He said: â€œThe bikes are not toys, they help me with my rehabilitation >>> and if I canâ€™t compete, my body seizes up and I canâ€™t walk.â€ >>> >>> http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=951756 >>> >>> Let's hope he gets them back soon. >> >> Poor guy, but why didn't he have them insured? > > Nowhere in the article does it say he doesn't. > The problem is stated as being the time it would take to get suitable > bikes built up to his specialised and unusual needs. > Bikes adapted to that kind of specialist need aren't something you can > just go and buy in a shop.

Well...OK. Fair enough. I actually *agree* with you!

>> He lives near Car-Hater Chapman. A shame that the scumbags didn't take >> the, err, scumbag's bikes instead. > > You mean Car-driver Chapman, who cycles when it is more appropriate?

No, I mean Car-Hater Chapman, who:

- put on his own webs[h]ite that he was "vehemently anti-motorist";

- wants everyone but himself and a few others to stop driving;

- tries to bring that about by pretending that anti-car measures like speed cameras have safety benefits when he knows they don't (and that they actually make the roads more dangerous in many cases);

- harasses, attempts to censor and wages hate campaigns against anyone who dares to expose what he is doing or the real level of (non-)safety improvements brought about by the anti-car measures that he advocates;

- also harasses and wages hate campaigns against anyone who dares to claim that cycle helmets improve safety; he knows that they do improve safety, but he fears that if that is shown, cycle helmets will be made compulsory, which would be a "bad thing" despite the safety benefits, because minimising restrictions on cyclists (and maximising restrictions on motorists) for ideological reasons is more important than improving safety in his book.