Posts Tagged ‘ war on the motorist (sic.) ’

In this ongoing war on the motorist (sic.), you just know that sooner or later you’ll be using that phrase to justify your actions to a jury: This just has to be a spoof . . . but I love it! What do you think the chances are of getting Boris Johnson act this out?...
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This from a post on Demotix.com, about the Blackfriars flashride: It rather proved the point that if the bikes and the cars are at war perhaps it is only the poor old pedestrian who has a daily battle with both. Here are some figures from the latest front-line dispatches of the war on the motorist (sic.): It...
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Remember all those stories about the Royal Mail phasing out its fleet of 24,000 bicycles “for safety reasons“? Well I think I’ve uncovered the truth on this, and it’s a whole lot more sinister than even the Health & Safety State Police could imagine. As part of the planned privatisation of the Post Office, their...
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I’ve been enjoying the articulate & well reasoned arguments against Vehicular Cycling that’ve been put up recently by Freewheeler, David Hembrow, and Crossrider, amongst others. These have all got me thinking, about the flawed logic that seems to be the received wisdom of “Cyclists’ (with a capital “C”) groups” in the UK. As freewheeler puts it, the kind...
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