Nuxx:1230b283-c8bf-4a7b-add6-30eab564b021@n14g2000pri.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!n14g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1230b283-c8bf-4a7b-add6-30eab564b021@n14g2000pri.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Motorist letter in local rag Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:08:48 -0700 (PDT) References:  <0MadnRYYcLkzzGLanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@plusnet> Lines: 17 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.204.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1207915729 2248 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2008 12:08:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n14g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.204.241; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1864 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:646741

On Apr 11, 12:55 pm, bugbear  wrote: > Mark wrote: > > Hi, > > > After I got home yesterday after two motorists overtook me only > > giving about 2 inches of room I read the local rag where some ****hole > > had written a letter saying that cyclists should be fined for cycling > > on the road if there is a cycle route. > > As long as motorists can be fined for using rat runs > and town centres where "better" approved routes > exist...

"Rat run" is a malicious term used by anti-car zealots, not that there are any of them on this group, just people who have all the same opinions as them, like Chapman.