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In article <52e98e32-af27-4d58-befa-2988014735a0 @a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, squashme@gmail.com says... > > First there's this:- > > http://tinyurl.com/ydya43s > > Then there's this:- > > http://tinyurl.com/ykcmjhy > > Automatic assumption?

You mean you think the author of the first article automatically assumed that the assailant was a cyclist simply because they were being violent and unreasonable towards a motorist?

Now why would they do that? Do you think it has anything to do with car-hating pieces of shit claiming to be "pro-cycling" (because they're too spineless to admit to being anti-motorist), speaking very vocally on behalf of cyclists, and thereby trashing the reputation of all cyclists (the majority of whom are perfectly decent people with no stupid axe to grind)?

It's yet another example of the car-haters like Chapman and Spindrift making things infinitely more difficult for *all* real cyclists. In fact they're probably making things more difficult for cyclists than they are motorists. Way to go...looks like the "I'm going to pretend I don't hate motorists because that'll make it easier to get anti-motorist measures" strategy is working a treat, not.

I'd be sympathetic towards the cyclists in question were they not still so accepting of the car-haters' spiteful, hateful rhetoric (which is quite clearly anti-car propaganda *very* thinly disguised as "pro- cycling" opinion). Ultimately they've really got themselves to blame (along with the car-haters of course). It's time to stand up to those who are simply hijacking and abusing the genuine cause of cycling for their own twisted ends. These people don't want to help anyone, they just want to bully motorists off the roads for their own perverse pleasure. It's time for the proper cyclists to tell them where to go.