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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!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e25c3e3$0$2943$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Silly cyclists Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:50:22 +0100 References:  <4e255309$0$2949$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>  <98lrcjF73qU2@mid.individual.net> Lines: 38 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: <98lrcjF73qU2@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6dd2865e.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=\=R8\M2SH31\hVj?cPX@P;YjZGX^207P;`@HC;o2IFYk On 19/07/2011 14:46, Clive George wrote: >> On 19/07/2011 10:48, Nuxx Bar wrote: >>> On 18/07/2011 14:35, Mrcheerful wrote: >>>> Lots of examples by cyclists and others of how not to ride. Their >>>> cameras >>>> seem to actually get relevant stuff. >>>> >>>> http://www.sillycyclists.co.uk/ >>> >>> Good to see our old "friend" Magnatom (one of the most notorious >>> going-round-with-a-camera-trying-to-provoke-motorist types, and >>> consequently a virtual celebrity on Cycle Chat) is regularly featured as >>> one of the silly cyclists. >> >> Regularly featured as one of the people providing video of silly >> cyclists. >> Got an example from there where he's the one being silly? > > He's the one who cycles round roundabouts with 25' carriageways in the > offside lane (the one nearer the centre) and demands not to be overtaken > in the empty lane to his left (thereby requiring the use of the whole > carriageway exclusively), isn't he? > > Whatever he thinks his videos tell the rest of the world, they say > plenty about him as well.

Quite. Nevertheless, Mr George is right insofar as what he says this time round; my bad, I only skim-read the site (so far). Since ol' Clivey is clearly analysing everything I say in so much detail, I can infer that everything I say that he doesn't correct is right on the money :-)

Interesting about Magnatom though; it would appear that as well as having a problem with all (other) motorists, he has a problem with all (other) cyclists. It seems that no-one is to be trusted with controlling any kind of vehicle (powered or otherwise) except him. That's even more control-freakish than most of the psycholists.