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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Wait like the rest of us Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:04:20 +0000 References:  <6rcancFj6baU1@mid.individual.net>  <3qv1l45b5tinu86rqnlsd0etrldm7hbk6j@4ax.com>      <5fadnTv7tu_R0szUnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com> Lines: 63 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5fadnTv7tu_R0szUnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe21.ams2 1230066282 82.21.204.127 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:04:42 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:04:42 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3890 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:681813

Marc wrote: > _ wrote: >> Marc wrote: >>> _ wrote: >>>> Light of Aria wrote: >>>>> >>>>> "_"  wrote in message >>>>> news:Yr74l.32021$er1.12572@newsfe18.ams2... >>>>>> Peter Grange wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:31:15 +0000, _  wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Paul - xxx wrote: >>>>>>>>> _ wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> in the old Landy >>>>>>>>> Sounds like you're one of the fucking muppets that gives Landrover >>>>>>>>> (4x4) drivers a bad name. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Yawn. If you say so, old son >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> What would have been wrong in leaving enough room? You might >>>>>>>>> even have >>>>>>>>> made someone's day by visibly allowing them free passage, which >>>>>>>>> is so >>>>>>>>> much nicer than the bile and grief you seem to prefer. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Leave him enough room? Why? Fuck him, cyclist twat. Get on the >>>>>>>> sodding cycleway where he should be and I couldn't have held him >>>>>>>> up :) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Where was this cycleway? You must have missed it out of your >>>>>>> original >>>>>>> post. >>>>>> >>>>>> Parallel with and about ten feet from the carraigeway. When I've >>>>>> mentioned this before, the bikers reckon its not used because it >>>>>> has give way lines where side roads cross it at junctions, while >>>>>> the main carraigeway has ROW by default. Oh, and apparently cycle >>>>>> paths might have broken glass or other debris on them. So the >>>>>> cyclist ignores the expensive lane provided for his exclusive use >>>>>> and instead holds up traffic thats going faster than him. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> These are OK for cycling slowly, or with children, or when tired, >>>>> or when with a heavy load. >>>>> >>>>> However a "top" cyclist who wishes to "make progress" can not >>>>> always safely use these converted pavements and has the lawful >>>>> right to use the highway like any other lawful highway user >>>> >>>> I see. So he has a dedicated facility, that only he can use. But he >>>> doesn't fancy it, so he uses one designed for a *different* category >>>> of road user. Sort of 'because I *can*' philosophy, then. >>>> >>> And you weren't on the Motorway, because? >> >> Perhaps because the motorway doesn't go into the car park at PCWorld? >> And yes, the cyclepath does go to the same point as the road does. So, >> next obfuscation? > The cycle path goes into the carpark at PCWorld?

Indeed it does.