On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:16:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Not normally sybject to personal flames but....
>
>Watch them cyclists too! (I've enough friends injured already by
>careless,
>smug, indestructible 4x4 owners)
>Neil.
I waited till to-day so's you know I'm not flaming back! GRIN!
Cyclists? Scumm of the earth! responsible for more accidents than
tongue can tell. And sanctimonious false prophets of the so-called
green movement.
i My cycling to work will help save the world! I will not use fossil
fuels BUT I will slow down every motorist on the road behind me,
thus forcing said responsible, licensed, tax-paying, drivers into
using their vehicles in the least efficient mode (low gears, high
emissions, etc etc) and thereby actually causing more pollution then
if they had taken their cars to work.
Then at traffic lights, I will become a wheeled pedestrian and either
jump tthrough the lights at red, or use the pedestrian controlled
crossing whilst still on my bike. And if there's a one-way system,
I'll just go round it the "wrong way", because I dont have a number
plate and therefore I cannot be traced by the Police (one Lycra clad
A**e looks very much like another!)
And that's just the ones who use the bike occasionally, The
"PROFESSIONALS" (bicycle courier companies) are of course
super-bikers. They can navigate through city traffic the wrong way up
one way streets onto pavements between pedestrians all whilst holding
a conversation with their HQ on mobile radios or phones, and writing
down the next address they are to call on. I know, I've seen them
doing it, and had to make emergency stops just to avoid killing them,
whilst they cycle onwards totally unaware of the havoc they cause.
Sorry Matey, cyclists get no sympathy from me. When they start to pay
a road tax like the rest of us, AND even more important, carry a
number plate that will identify them, then I'll give them a chance.
Till then I'll carry on in my 4x4 cocoon, to mis-quote the captain of
the Titanic---
full speed ahead and damn the cyclists!!
You started me! The next worst are cycling clubs. Twenty-four of
them, cycling in groups of four, all in line abreast. I give a gentle
toot on the horn to let them know I've got a car and caravan on the
back, and without even looking to see, they all spread out even wider
so's to make the point, and to make it difficult to pass That;'s when
the foot goes down and the horn really gets blasted.
Cant's stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen!
Regards
Mel
(Only some of this is "tongue in cheek!)
And to the rest, apologies for the bandwidth. Subject closed on list.
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