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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone01.ams.highwinds-media.com!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe11.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Wait like the rest of us Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:30:11 +0000 References:  <6rcancFj6baU1@mid.individual.net>  <3qv1l45b5tinu86rqnlsd0etrldm7hbk6j@4ax.com>     Lines: 57 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe11.ams2 1230057031 82.21.204.127 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:30:31 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:30:31 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3538 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:681787

Marc wrote: > _ wrote: >> Light of Aria wrote: >>> >>> "_"  wrote in message >>> news:Yr74l.32021$er1.12572@newsfe18.ams2... >>>> Peter Grange wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:31:15 +0000, _  wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Paul - xxx wrote: >>>>>>> _ wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> in the old Landy >>>>>>> Sounds like you're one of the fucking muppets that gives Landrover >>>>>>> (4x4) drivers a bad name. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Yawn. If you say so, old son >>>>>> >>>>>>> What would have been wrong in leaving enough room? You might >>>>>>> even have >>>>>>> made someone's day by visibly allowing them free passage, which >>>>>>> is so >>>>>>> much nicer than the bile and grief you seem to prefer. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Leave him enough room? Why? Fuck him, cyclist twat. Get on the >>>>>> sodding cycleway where he should be and I couldn't have held him >>>>>> up :) >>>>> >>>>> Where was this cycleway? You must have missed it out of your original >>>>> post. >>>> >>>> Parallel with and about ten feet from the carraigeway. When I've >>>> mentioned this before, the bikers reckon its not used because it has >>>> give way lines where side roads cross it at junctions, while the >>>> main carraigeway has ROW by default. Oh, and apparently cycle paths >>>> might have broken glass or other debris on them. So the cyclist >>>> ignores the expensive lane provided for his exclusive use and >>>> instead holds up traffic thats going faster than him. >>> >>> >>> >>> These are OK for cycling slowly, or with children, or when tired, or >>> when with a heavy load. >>> >>> However a "top" cyclist who wishes to "make progress" can not always >>> safely use these converted pavements and has the lawful right to use >>> the highway like any other lawful highway user >> >> I see. So he has a dedicated facility, that only he can use. But he >> doesn't fancy it, so he uses one designed for a *different* category >> of road user. Sort of 'because I *can*' philosophy, then. >> > And you weren't on the Motorway, because?

Perhaps because the motorway doesn't go into the car park at PCWorld? And yes, the cyclepath does go to the same point as the road does. So, next obfuscation?