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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!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e1b8980$0$2934$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Tour de France crashes - in pictures Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:38:38 +0100 References:    Lines: 25 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:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 79eb7a83.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=KKeGm4:hP@G<0m3mFa?g@MYjZGX^207PK` Derek C wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 3:27 pm, Judith  wrote: >>> Wicked : >>> >>> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery/2011/jul/11/tourde-france-201... >> >> Looks like cycling could be a pretty dangerous activity, especially >> when there are lots of them riding together. So much for the 'critical >> mass' theory! > > I can't recall anyone denying, indeed most cyclists would agree, that > cycle racing is more dangerous than 'normal' cycling .. It's an > inherent fact that danger is present when racing and pushing the limits > of adhesion and speed. > > Mind, in these cases, it doesn't help when fuckwit car drivers > side-swipe riders instead of simply concentrating or braking rather > than just bullying their way through. > > A race has nothing whatsoever to do with critical mass theory.

Silly greasy-haired motorcyclist. Thinks he's so great.