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One person's view.

Disgruntled cyclist-
"I don't like cars using the roads where I ride my bike, so motorists, take note and keep off the road."

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iviehoff wrote: it is very difficult legally and effectively to light your bike without using flashing lights.
Really??
Also there are some appalling dazzling blinking/flashing cyclists' lights. It's not surprising they raise complaints.
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Hi Revolution,

your reply i presume in the North Somerset Times?
Nicely written, I think the last sentance may have the UKIP candidate who posts in the same paper frothing at the mouth for a reply about road tax, number plates, red light jumping...

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your reply i presume in the North Somerset Times?

Yes indeed. I await a tsunami of angry replies :( but I hope it amused more people than it annoyed. :D
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Revolution wrote:
your reply i presume in the North Somerset Times?

Yes indeed. I await a tsunami of angry replies :( but I hope it amused more people than it annoyed. :D


Is there any chance of link to it :)
I've tried their site without joy :?
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Well worded riposte.
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gaz wrote:Well worded riposte.


+1
And perfectly correct :)
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reohn2 wrote:
gaz wrote:Well worded riposte.


+1
And perfectly correct :)


+2, I nearly started cheering as I got to the end of the letter! :)
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...even Mrs Mulligan's car has indicators that flash...

Of course, it's always possible that Mrs Mulligan's car sports a pair of these:
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Anyone else remember them? They are still around on the occasional classic car.

As it happens, I have a footnote about trafficators. One of them was my father's undoing, many many years ago. He was driving along and realised his trafficator had jammed in the up position, so he leaned out of the window and tried to reset it. And ... rammed straight into a parked car :shock: . Both cars were write-offs. He was lucky to escape with a few bruises. And even luckier to escape the attention of the Plod. The chief damage was to his pocket....
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gaz wrote:Well worded riposte.


+ 3. I despair at the amount of anti-cycling/anti-cyclist rot that is spouted these days. Obviously, merely using a bicycle doesn't instantly mean you have the same habits on the road as every other cyclist - I'm sure we all see very dubious behaviour from other cyclists on occasion. But to gauge the reaction to cycling from some of Joe Public you'd think innocent pedestrians were being mown down on a daily basis by hordes of anti-social cycle thugs.
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Wilf Roberts wrote:
gaz wrote:Well worded riposte.


+ 3. I despair at the amount of anti-cycling/anti-cyclist rot that is spouted these days. Obviously, merely using a bicycle doesn't instantly mean you have the same habits on the road as every other cyclist - I'm sure we all see very dubious behaviour from other cyclists on occasion. But to gauge the reaction to cycling from some of Joe Public you'd think innocent pedestrians were being mown down on a daily basis by hordes of anti-social cycle thugs.


I agree.
Whenever there's an article in some 'news'paper there's seems to be a queue of people who can't wait to post anti cycling comments,with blatant untruths,that just don't apply either to reality or the law.
For a so called liberal minded country,there are a lot of anti cycling people about.
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reohn2 wrote:For a so called liberal minded country,there are a lot of anti cycling people about.

I think the UK has become a very "anti-" loads of things, not just cycling. And it seems to be getting worse. Other countries (incl. European countries) seem to manage a far more tolerant society, but in the UK we are anti, anti, anti.

It might be too simplistic but I think much of it comes from our politicians who seek to blame everybody else for everything that is wrong. We seek scapegoats for everything and can never take responsibility when we "get it wrong".

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Psamathe wrote:
reohn2 wrote:For a so called liberal minded country,there are a lot of anti cycling people about.

I think the UK has become a very "anti-" loads of things, not just cycling. And it seems to be getting worse. Other countries (incl. European countries) seem to manage a far more tolerant society, but in the UK we are anti, anti, anti.

It might be too simplistic but I think much of it comes from our politicians who seek to blame everybody else for everything that is wrong. We seek scapegoats for everything and can never take responsibility when we "get it wrong".

Ian

I agree,there seems to be an every increasing finger pointing blame culture,whilst those who are really to blame are getting away,in some cases literally,with murder and if not,at least unlawful killing and maiming.
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As a manager at a company I worked at a few years ago once said, "Yes there is a blame culture in this company. But who's fault is that?"
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