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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!postnews.google.com!d14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: wow, a sensible cyclist's comment Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:47:04 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 30 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300546024 2241 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2011 14:47:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:47:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d14g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2498 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:803103

On Mar 18, 8:52=A0am, "Mrcheerful"  wrote: > "For their own safety cyclists should always give way to drivers and neve= r > obstruct them in any way. For their own safety cyclists should not use ro= ads > but instead cycle paths and share use pavements provided for them. If a > cyclist gets in the way of a driver and collides with them the cyclist > should be prepared to accept sole responsibility and blame. Also, a cycli= st > should be wearing a crash helmet and reflective vest and be riding a bicy= cle > which is perfect working order and fitted with mandatory reflectors etc i= f > they wish to minimise their blame after colliding with a driver. For thei= r > own safety cyclists should receive special training to minimise colliding > with drivers." > > Nothing anyone could argue with there. > > I would add: ride in accordance with the law, the Highway code and common > sense. =A0Plus no road racing of any type. > > It would reduce casualties and annoyance to all road users.

All seems fair enough to me, but then how are psycholists supposed to deliberately obstruct and annoy motorists just because they think they shouldn't be driving? After all, society generally works much better when everyone is taking direct action to force their opinions onto everyone else all the time....