From: GT on
"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 May 2010 20:13:58 +0100, "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote:
>
>>Why are there so many car haters
>
> In my experience so far car haters are exclusively inner city
> dwellers, often metrosexuals who wouldn't know one end of a power tool
> from the other (for instance). Is this impression correct?

The general impression I'm getting, yes. Some of them also seem to enjoy
filming themselves riding strange, unstable (therefore unsafe), handicapped
bicycle-type things around too. They've even invented a name for them -
'cumbersome', or 'retarded' or something like that.


From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:33:03 +0100, "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote:

>'cumbersome', or 'retarded' or something like that.

they do not use them for the tour de france, why would you want to be
even more invisible to trucks?
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Nick Finnigan on
DavidR wrote:
>
> Look at the cross postings. There are two nutters primarily responsible. One
> seems to think cycle helmets are so important they need to drawn to the
> attention of non-cyclists.

A bit of a bee in his bonnet?
From: Brimstone on


"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:33:03 +0100, "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote:
>
>>'cumbersome', or 'retarded' or something like that.
>
> they do not use them for the tour de france, why would you want to be
> even more invisible to trucks?
> --
Do trucks compete in the Tour de France? ;-)


From: DavidR on
"Nick Finnigan" <nix(a)genie.co.uk> wrote
> DavidR wrote:
>>
>> Look at the cross postings. There are two nutters primarily responsible.
>> One
>> seems to think cycle helmets are so important they need to drawn to the
>> attention of non-cyclists.
>
> A bit of a bee in his bonnet?

:)