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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!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e300947$0$2533$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Can a different bike make you a different rider? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:49:07 +0100 References:  <99aalmFd7fU1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 14 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: 221cff6a.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=Am0Z^K=@>CCTdET4STWa>Knok4Z\ > I have a Dutch bike

No, you can't possibly have a bicycle because you don't have the correct opinions. That's why they ask prospective buyers of all new bicycles what they think about helmets, anti-car measures, etc before deciding whether to allow them to purchase.

Apparently they're going to extend it to all second-hand sales as well. It'll increase red tape no end but it will of course be worth it to keep the infidels out. It could even be combined with compulsory registration for all bicycles (D'oh! Now I'm not allowed to get a new bicycle....)