Nuxx:Cfc870d3-9b01-4f90-a5f0-f324566f1f81@s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com

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!s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: cars blocking cycle lanes Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:36:24 -0700 (PDT) References: <4a1c2d76$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> Lines: 14 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 1243377385 13015 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2009 22:36:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s28g2000vbp.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: 2027 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:704458

On May 26, 6:57=A0pm, Bod  wrote: > On a trip to our local shops just now,I couldn't help notice that the > majority of car drivers (in slow moving traffic)were too close to the > kerb,thereby denying cyclists their own lane.

I always make sure I leave space for cyclists in such situations. Although when I come on here and find how many cyclists apparently hate motorists, I wonder why I bother. Then I remember that actually, very few real cyclists hate motorists, it's just that a lot of the car- haters have taken to calling themselves "cycling advocates" and speaking on behalf of cyclists. So I'll continue to leave room for cyclists and give them as much courtesy as possible; the car-hating parasites may have trashed the reputation of cyclists in general in many people's eyes, but not mine.