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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <10fbdc25-ea63-40f5-9141-f67f9fd9820f@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cycling on pavements Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:44:34 -0700 (PDT) References: <4a1a4037$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>  Lines: 13 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243269874 30481 127.0.0.1 (25 May 2009 16:44:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1953 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:704038

On May 25, 10:08=A0am, Jon  wrote: > > - demonstrating allegience to the car-cult - by following it's fantasy > that cycles do not belong on the carriageway, and by making it clear > that > =A0 they are only messing about on a bike until they can get a car, not > (heaven forbid) prefering real cycling to driving.

Ha ha. As utility transport, cycling *is* inferior to driving by most sensible measures though. It's only when artificial anti-motorist measures are brought into play (and otherwise in very specific places) that the two modes of transport are anything like equal overall. Some may not like that for whatever reason, but that doesn't change it.