Nuxx:4e37283e$0$2942$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk

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!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e37283e$0$2942$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Just eight cyclists fined in one year Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:27:09 +0100 References:   Lines: 30 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 5f342996.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=eYD58_7k0dcDW6OfPQo7ccYjZGX^207Pk` On 30/07/2011 09:45, Simon Mason wrote: >> The shocking level of serial lawbreaking by cyclists is revealed by >> Tayside police. > > Police ticket 39 cyclists in Brighton and Hove in one week; > > http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2010/11/police-ticket-39-cyclists-in-brighton-and-hove-in-one-week/ > > > Hundreds of cyclists fined for flouting rules of the road > > NEARLY 400 cyclists have been given on-the-spot fines for flouting the > law in the last three months as part of a police crackdown on traffic > offences in the City. > > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23572385-hundreds-of-cyclists-fined-for-flouting-rules-of-the-road.do > > > CYCLISTS have been fined a record amount after being caught riding in > Oxford’s city centre pedestrianised areas. > Police stopped 95 cyclists – the equivalent of one every two minutes – > riding illegally in Cornmarket Street and Queen Street. > > http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4412244.95_cyclists_fined_in_city_centre/

Ah. Well when *that* happens then it means that cyclists are being "unfairly picked on".

There's a pro-cyclist "explanation" for every possible occurrence, it seems.