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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!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: <4e33557e$0$2943$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Can a different bike make you a different rider? Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:51:09 +0100 References:  <99aalmFd7fU1@mid.individual.net>    Lines: 22 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 716f71e4.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=`Ic?Rm3L8c:IC9bn?J6iN;YjZGX^207P;`@HC;o2IFYk > That's a lot of words to say what is already well known and what Chris > Juden said on the CTC site: a legal adult bike for permanent use n the > UK must have two independent braking systems, one acting on the front > and one on the rear. The rear can be a coaster brake or the braking > effect of a fixed wheel.

Next we'll probably find that you only have one braking system on your bike (you know, in the same way that you wear a helmet despite all the stuff you say against helmets).

> I don't think there's a lot of room for ambiguity here. I suppose one > could hypothesise about unusually short stature or unusually long > temporary residence, but that would go against Occam's razor.

Ah yes, one of your favourites: "Occam's razor". Clearly you think it makes you sound very clever to keep saying it. Not that it doesn't make sense: the simplest explanation (that you posted as Lou Knee) is indeed usually the correct one.

(Presumably you "know" Occam in the same way that you "know" Godwin...?)