Re: Tut Tut...

in message <4686432d$0$8721$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tony B
('usenetguff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:

Rob Morley wrote:

The bikes are the fastest things on the road, the riders are all
concentrating and pumped up on adrenaline - I doubt anyone would get
anything worse than bruises, road rash or a broken wrist or collar bone
if they did screw up. I suppose one of them could ricochet off a car
and head*** a lamp post, but he'd have to be unlucky.

You are trying to defend the indefensible.

I don't think he's trying to defend it, at all.

There is zero justification
for riding like that - it is selfish, inconsiderate, illegal

Yes, certainly, all of those things - which are good and sufficient reasons
for opposing it...

and dangerous.

.... but I think he's right about this one. It isn't nearly as dangerous as
it looks.

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simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

...but have you *seen* the size of the world wide spider?

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