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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!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!81.171.88.15.MISMATCH!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e341a32$0$2940$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Bexley driver "'severely embarrassed' after attack. Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:50:24 +0100 References:  <998b11F9raU1@mid.individual.net>  <4e334b24$0$2491$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>  <4e34118d$0$2502$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>  Lines: 38 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=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6bf225af.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=?=^:fS=:e5f05G]jnOkg8gYjZGX^207Pk`lj X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2909 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:819568

On 30/07/2011 15:31, Simon Mason wrote: > > "Nuxx Bar"  wrote in message > news:4e34118d$0$2502$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk... >> On 30/07/2011 14:01, Simon Mason wrote: >>> >>> "Nuxx Bar"  wrote in message >>> news:4e334b24$0$2491$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk... >>>> >>> >>>> If it's done as a genuine, necessary effort to prevent someone from >>>> knocking you off or squashing you then that's one thing. Of course >>>> your >>>> self-preservation is more important than any vehicle. >>> >>> >>> What is your opinion of this photo, Nuxxy? >>> >>> http://www.swldxer.co.uk/overtaking.jpg >> >> There's no real need to give cyclists that much room, and you and others >> are perfectly aware of that. > > One wonders why it is shown as an example in the Highway Code then.

Because in recent years the Highway Code has sadly become biased towards cyclists and against motorists. See this list of perfectly reasonable suggestions from the ABD which were ignored just because they were from the ABD (Chapman recently linked to them and said they were barking, but then he would, being a car-hater):

http://www.abd.org.uk/highway_code_2006.htm

I'd love to see what objection you could possibly have to most if not all of those suggestions, many of which help cyclists (but I suppose if they help motorists as well then that automatically disqualifies them....) Go on, why don't you actually read them all and tell me what problem (if any) you have with each of them?