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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Boris Johnson's 'Near Death' experience caught on fillum. Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:00:15 -0700 (PDT) References: <76eecbe4-bc2c-47f4-9978-0d7307af76bc@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>  <8uydnTByg6duv4XXnZ2dnUVZ8k1i4p2d@pipex.net> <15a261d1-bc0b-4619-95bb-fb571be692ca@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <77qp72F1iogjuU1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 36 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243180816 12403 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2009 16:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3042 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:703665

On May 23, 6:24=A0pm, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > "Matt B"  wrote in message > > news:77qp72F1iogjuU1@mid.individual.net... > > > > > Perhaps they'll notice too that it appeared to have been jolted open by > > the speed hump. =A0And maybe they'll realise that adding another source= of > > risk and danger to the roads is, perhaps, not such a good idea. > > No wonder so many illegal immigrants can get into the back of lorries in > Calais if a jolt over a speed bump at low speeds can force open a lorry r= ear > door! > > Reminds me of a local guy who complained to the local paper about damage = to > his car when driving over a speed hump at 30 mph. A councillor pointed ou= t > that had he driven over it at the legal limit of 20mph, then his car woul= d > probably not have been damaged.

There are plenty of speed humps (usually the ones which go right across the road rather than the cushions) in 30mph limits which would do a lot of damage to any vehicle going over them at 30mph. I have to wonder why you appear to have such a starry-eyed view of speed humps, cameras et al...do you just not drive/cycle on many different roads? Because if you had then you would surely have seen *dreadful* examples of cameras, humps, stupidly low speed limits, and all sorts of other anti-car measures. Maybe you see such examples but disregard them because you've made up your mind on the matter and now you don't want to have to change it? Who knows.