Nuxx:F36a03e5-215c-42e5-a8d7-d74837ec46ca@o20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com

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!o20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Speed and accident risk Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) References: <8f68e9c1-ae83-4703-90e5-e6ae40b443ba@p4g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <776b8gF1doaseU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 22 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242484867 5046 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2009 14:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 14:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; 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: 2051 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701886

On May 16, 12:13=A0am, "OG"  wrote: > "Squashme"  wrote in message > > news:8f68e9c1-ae83-4703-90e5-e6ae40b443ba@p4g2000vba.googlegroups.com... > > > From the "European Road Safety Laboratory":- > > > "A higher speed increases the likelihood of an accident.. . . > > Given this is a cycling ng; I think this is probably mostly OT and should > have been marked as such.

Not so: topics related to speeding and speed cameras are only OT if the poster concerned disagrees with the moderator Chapman on the matter. Since the OP has spouted exactly the kind of simplistic claptrap that Chapman does on the subject, the thread is permitted.

> Were we an anti-motorist ng it could have been relevant, but we're not an= d > it wasn't.

Very funny.