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From: MasonS on 29 Dec 2009 13:57 On 29 Dec, 17:55, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Mas...(a)BP.com wrote: > > On 28 Dec, 20:35, "The Medway Handyman" > > <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > >> I assume from this avoidance that you can't supply the figures for > >> killer cyclists? > > >> -- > >> Dave - the small piece of 14th century armour used to protect the > >> armpit. > > > If you insist. > > 23 million bicycles in the UK . > > Nice try. Are you David Hansen in disguise? As this year has yet to end we won't count our chickens just yet, but it looks like it will be another one where a cyclist has not killed a pedestrian on the pavement. DfT figures give the number killed at between 0 and 1 per year. If you get your calculator out and invent any number of miles that the country's cyclists cover in a year and divide it by 0, you will get "Error". That's because it can't compute infinity, but this means that it doesn't matter how many miles they cover in comparison to drivers as any number divided by 0 will give you the same answer - infinity. -- Simon Mason
From: The Medway Handyman on 29 Dec 2009 13:58 Conor wrote: > In article <por_m.19930$Ym4.15819(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, The > Medway Handyman says... >> >> MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: >>> On 28 Dec, 20:35, "The Medway Handyman" >>> <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> I assume from this avoidance that you can't supply the figures for >>>> killer cyclists? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dave - the small piece of 14th century armour used to protect the >>>> armpit. >>> >>> If you insist. >>> 23 million bicycles in the UK . >> >> Nice try. How many are owned by kids? >> > I think its bullshit For there to be 23 million, ownership would have > to be 1 in 3. Between the four houses in my small row, there's 11 > people. There's only 2 bicycles. > > I wonder how many are in active use. At least with cars you can count > the number with a tax disc/MOT. Ferzacerly! -- Dave - the small piece of 14th century armour used to protect the armpit.
From: MasonS on 29 Dec 2009 14:02 On 29 Dec, 18:20, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > I think its bullshit For there to be 23 million, ownership would have to > be 1 in 3. Between the four houses in my small row, there's 11 people. > There's only 2 bicycles. I've got 7 bikes alone, but then again, I have a car and don't drive Dave's stated average motorists' mileage of 12000 miles, so it is dangerous to extrapolate your own local experience to national average statistics. -- Simon Mason
From: The Medway Handyman on 29 Dec 2009 14:04 Bod wrote: > The Medway Handyman wrote: >> Conor wrote: >>> In article <b462ef2d-e0ab-4b2b-80a7-66d73c5ff245 >>> @j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Doug says... >>>> On 28 Dec, 14:15, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> In article <cda4c07c-3bff-4254-a6fd-76640e37e458 >>>>> @e37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says... >>>>> >>>>>> Another story from a long time ago, this time 16 months old. >>>>>> Since then cars have killed about 4000 people. >>>>>> Try and keep things into perspective. >>>>> Since then cigarettes have killed around 150,000 people. >>>>> Try to keep things in perspective. >>>>> >>>> This is about people killing other people, not people killing >>>> themselves. >>> OK, PASSIVE SMOKING kills 11,000 people per year, >> >> Care to name one? >> >> > Well, Roy Castle claimed his cancer was from passive smoking, but I > personally think that's a load of tosh. Indeed. The old 'Roy Castle' chestnut. Non smokers do contract lung cancer, but its an entirely different form to that of smokers & occurs in a different part of the lung. The 11,000 figure BTW has also been the 9,000 figure. Thats for smokers in the UK. The 'official' figure for Europe is 16,000. Go figure. -- Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist
From: Conor on 29 Dec 2009 15:11
In article <7aff7456-e513-4a6f-a027-e257561caf29 @m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > I've got 7 bikes alone, but then again, I have a car and don't drive > Dave's stated average motorists' mileage of 12000 miles, so it is > dangerous to extrapolate your own local experience to national average > statistics. No problem.... Where are all the cyclists on the roads within a 30 mile radius of my house? There are hardly any at all. You're lucky to see one per day. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. |