Nuxx:E5100a70-6a0a-461c-904d-0828a6ab63ea@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Potholed road with immaculate speed bumps Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:18:01 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 21 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.217.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212646682 11745 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2008 06:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.217.66; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2198 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:651984

On Jun 4, 10:09=A0pm, Martin  wrote: > Nuxx Bar wrote: > >http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/content/islington/gazette/news/stor... > > If this is an attempt to show prove the existence of anti-motorist > measures then you have failed miserably. > Cyclists are more affected by potholes than motorists. A pothole that > would feel like a small bump in a car could throw a cyclist off his bike. > > As someone else pointed out, the paint on the bumps is ancient, and > nearly worn away. This shows that the bumps have been there a long time. > > > Daniel Karlea, 26, a plasterer, said: "It is a nightmare, everyone > > says it. I broke a wheel on my car on the bumps two months ago and I > > had to buy a new one. The road needs resurfacing badly." > > So Daniel Karlea was driving too fast for the conditions, proving that > paul smith was dead wrong, and that drivers are unable to decide a > suitable speed.

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