bike on train
in [UK Drivers]
|
Prev: A danger to motorists...
Next: Brown bin day!
From: NM on 9 Dec 2009 15:25 On 9 Dec, 18:38, Tom Crispin <kije.rem...(a)this.bit.freeuk.com.munge> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:20:41 -0800 (PST), NM <nik.mor...(a)mac.com> > wrote: > > >Point 1, Why allow bikes on trains that are very busy. > > >Point 2, If you must tolerate bikes then make some proper provision > >for processing them. > > Point 3, There was there someone oggling on without offering to lend a > hand. That's easy, I was on the wrong side of the barrier with a wheelie case and a shouldwer bag plus a right arm in a sling due to being knocked off my motorcycle a few weeks ago,.otherwise I would have been happy to assist but I was not in a position to offer any help. There were many incoming passengers who were all in too much of a hurry to help, why are you not picking on them instead of a laden crippled pensioner?
From: Chris Tolley cj.tolley on 9 Dec 2009 15:47 Paul Rigg wrote: > National cycle route 68 goes right past my front door and its straight > and approximately level (unusually for the Pennines!) > > They bat on there at 40mph and they could quite easily cause an > accident. I went to watch a number of the town centre tour races during the summer. The speeds of the elite cyclists who took part were much closer to 35. I've only once got a bike over 40, and that was down a hill with a gale behind me. -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683657.html (53933 (Class 108) at Shrewsbury, 2 Jun 1985)
From: Kenny on 9 Dec 2009 16:07 In message <t1hvh558u2kbt4b6ol5drea0ftpu7g35lq(a)4ax.com>, Mike <nospam(a)nospam.com> writes >On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:20:41 -0800 (PST), NM <nik.morgan(a)mac.com> >wrote: > >>She was a stunningly pretty young thing, she caught this dirty old >>mans eye as she alighted from the incoming train at Liverpool Street >>this morning at about 0615, she was clad in the latest stylish >>obligatory body clinging lycra and yellow reflective light jacket plus >>of course the mandatory half melon on her head. > >Your post is pointless without a picture, preferably of this woman >clad in lycra and not of a train or a bike. Preferably with a cameltoe... ;-) -- Kenny
From: Tom Crispin on 9 Dec 2009 16:29 On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:25:14 -0800 (PST), NM <nik.morgan(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 9 Dec, 18:38, Tom Crispin <kije.rem...(a)this.bit.freeuk.com.munge> >wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:20:41 -0800 (PST), NM <nik.mor...(a)mac.com> >> wrote: >> >> >Point 1, Why allow bikes on trains that are very busy. >> >> >Point 2, If you must tolerate bikes then make some proper provision >> >for processing them. >> >> Point 3, There was there someone oggling on without offering to lend a >> hand. > >That's easy, I was on the wrong side of the barrier with a wheelie >case and a shouldwer bag plus a right arm in a sling due to being >knocked off my motorcycle a few weeks ago,.otherwise I would have been >happy to assist but I was not in a position to offer any help. >There were many incoming passengers who were all in too much of a >hurry to help, why are you not picking on them instead of a laden >crippled pensioner? Point 1, I was unaware that you were a laden crippled pensioner. Point 2, I have no way of contacting the many incoming passengers who were all in too much of a hurry to help. Point 3, Even a laden crippled pensioner would have been able to summon assistance.
From: Tom Anderson on 9 Dec 2009 16:49
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > On 9 Dec, 13:41, "Paul Rigg" <gzero...(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > >> 2 � �Have compulsory insurance > > You are presumably aware that most cyclists have third-party liability > insurance cover which is provided to any inhabitant of their home as > part of their home contents insurance? It's not mandatory, OK, but I > would think that more people have home contents insurance than not. I'd love to see some statistics on that, as i suspect it's not the case. I suspect most people who rent aren't insured, and an awful lot of people rent. I also suspect that the cycling demographic is skewed towards the young and the urban, which will mean it overrepresents renters. Of course, mostly what i'm doing here is extrapolating from a sample of one (and kidding myself that i'm still young). tom -- Yulava? Niob Yam! |