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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!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e25ea6c$0$2531$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Watch out, there's a thief about. Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:34:51 +0100 References: <63cb5674-a6f8-414e-aa47-40adedd0bea4@l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <9649dc5e-a303-45d0-a1a3-2373cb8d0bf5@m10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <4e241847$0$2492$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <8so827pc481ogi5vbicd6lfl4o91f9qiad@4ax.com> <4e2589d1$0$2496$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <6epb275n42qbo996u3865rrs7ultvq0pdt@4ax.com> Lines: 65 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: <6epb275n42qbo996u3865rrs7ultvq0pdt@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: a3e7e14b.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=4<^W2To9A45>1R_Td>lHi1nok4Z\ Nuxx Bar  considered Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:42:41 > +0100 the perfect time to write: > >> On 18/07/2011 17:50, Phil W Lee wrote: >>> Nuxx Bar  considered Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:25:59 >>> +0100 the perfect time to write: >>> >>>> On 18/07/2011 10:16, Simon Mason wrote: >>>>> A case in point. >>>>> >>>>> QUOTE: >>>>> >>>>> "Mr Plested was paralysed in a motorcycling accident in 1999 in which >>>>> he broke his neck and back. >>>>> He took up cycling two years later on the advice of his >>>>> physiotherapist but can only pedal with his right leg. The bikes are >>>>> specially adapted for his use. >>>>> He said: â€œThe bikes are not toys, they help me with my rehabilitation >>>>> and if I canâ€™t compete, my body seizes up and I canâ€™t walk.â€ >>>>> >>>>> http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=951756 >>>>> >>>>> Let's hope he gets them back soon. >>>> >>>> Poor guy, but why didn't he have them insured? >>> >>> Nowhere in the article does it say he doesn't. >>> The problem is stated as being the time it would take to get suitable >>> bikes built up to his specialised and unusual needs. >>> Bikes adapted to that kind of specialist need aren't something you can >>> just go and buy in a shop. >> >> Well...OK. Fair enough. I actually *agree* with you! >> >>>> He lives near Car-Hater Chapman. A shame that the scumbags didn't take >>>> the, err, scumbag's bikes instead. >>> >>> You mean Car-driver Chapman, who cycles when it is more appropriate? >> >> No, I mean Car-Hater Chapman, who: >> >> - put on his own webs[h]ite that he was "vehemently anti-motorist"; >> >> - wants everyone but himself and a few others to stop driving; >> >> - tries to bring that about by pretending that anti-car measures like >> speed cameras have safety benefits when he knows they don't (and that >> they actually make the roads more dangerous in many cases); >> >> - harasses, attempts to censor and wages hate campaigns against anyone >> who dares to expose what he is doing or the real level of (non-)safety >> improvements brought about by the anti-car measures that he advocates; >> >> - also harasses and wages hate campaigns against anyone who dares to >> claim that cycle helmets improve safety; he knows that they do improve >> safety, but he fears that if that is shown, cycle helmets will be made >> compulsory, which would be a "bad thing" despite the safety benefits, >> because minimising restrictions on cyclists (and maximising restrictions >> on motorists) for ideological reasons is more important than improving >> safety in his book. > > Ah, you should have just said you meant /realist/.

Yes, I see, that's obvious to me now.