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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!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.astraweb.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2ef64f$0$2494$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Brothers or Whiteys? Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:15:54 +0100 References:   <4e2eeba7$0$2935$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>  Lines: 44 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: a9129147.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=2fNS5OG7[RMe@hNFIWl:K@0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnENDVWi[N8QK3>J`:ITG5aA:cG>kP;KmNehkN X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 3243 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:818863

On 26/07/2011 17:35, Simon Mason wrote: > On Jul 26, 5:30 pm, Nuxx Bar  wrote: >> On 26/07/2011 10:53, Simon Mason wrote: >> >>> On Jul 26, 9:20 am, Squashme  wrote: >>>> Are the non-cyclists, who visit this group to give cyclists the >>>> benefit of their opinions on cycling, their brother's keepers or are >>>> they just whited sepulchres? >> >>> When challenged, they all claim to be cyclists themselves, but never >>> relate to any single journey they have made by bicycle. >>> One must conclude that they are lying. >> >> Who are you talking about? Funny how you're prepared to come to the >> conclusion that such people are lying when there's no evidence for it, >> yet with the copious and undeniable evidence out there that Chapman >> posted as Lou Knee, you still won't say that he did it. Conclusion: >> Simon Mason supports the side that he wants to support rather than the >> side which has the evidence in its favour. > > Let's have all of your ride reports and commuting stories then. > > Roll up, roll up.

I don't cycle much, but I do. As I said, I don't enjoy it, hence no "reports", and I've never commuted by bike (and don't intend to start). It usually tends to be short journeys, every now and then, when it wouldn't be worth starting the car engine but I want to be quicker than walking.

Sorry that that clearly bothers you, but I'm not going to pretend to enjoy something that I don't.

> PS - I have never offered any opinion on the "Lou Knee" matter.

If concrete evidence had emerged of Chapman's innocence then something tells me you would have come out in his favour. On the other hand, even if you had been interested in the Lou Knee topic, let's face it, wild horses wouldn't have got you to say you thought it was him. It would be too politically inconvenient for you to do so. You know it, I know it.

> It's too childish and inconsequential, TBH.

No more so than many of the subjects discussed on here....