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On 04/08/2011 09:03, Simon Mason wrote: > As abo said - you can beat a cyclist to a pulp and get half that sentence.

And as others have said (but you have chosen to ignore, along with other inconvenient truths), if lunatic car-haters, law-breaking cyclists and "compo cam" provocateurs weren't giving all cyclists such a bad name then maybe the perceived "unfairness" that the police and judicial system show towards cyclists would no longer happen.