On 22 Sep, 19:50, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman)
wrote:
> YTC#1  wrote:
> > Its brill, you walk up, and taxis, cars, vans all stop so you can cross.
>
> > Then a fleet of hairy arsed bikers sweep eaither side of the stationary
> > vehicles and progress with no reduction in speed or direction, or heed
> > for anyone crossing.
>
> > Meanwhile the motorised hairy arsed bikers patiently wait for you to cross.
>
> > It makes me ashamed to be a push bike rider. The streets of London would
> > be safer if pedals were banned.
>
> I was trundling south from Camden the other day, and one pedal twat,
> coming the other way, decided not only to ignore the pedestrian crossing
> light, but also swoop the wrong side of the fucking traffic island.
>
> Missed him by ---> <---
>
> And now they're discussing making drivers liable in all powered
> vehicle/bicycle collisions. Madness. If I twat one of the suicide
> jockeys on my Ducati, it's gonna hurt me just as much. If not more.
>
> Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of sensible ones, but the militant
> loonies want shooting.
>

This was in the Wail today, for once I agree withn the sentiments.

"The odds of cyclists hurting or killing themselves are bad enough
already,  No wonder members of the medical profession refer to them as
'donors'

I prefer to think of them as the Mai-Mai, the Congolese militia who
believe that they are endowed with magical qualities making them
immune to bullets.

I sense a similar contempt for human mortality when I watch a pumped
up Lycra lout bombing through the London traffic in the belief that he
(and it's usually a he) is some sort of superior being with superior
ideology - two wheels, good: four wheels, bad. To question this
orthodoxy is simply, environmental heresy."

Extract from, Lycra Louts Drive Me crazy. in the Wail.