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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.100343.2315@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:03:43 GMT
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- In article <Bxz2s1.3sE@exnet.co.uk>, s0rah@exnet.co.uk (R A Hollands) writes:
- |> Of late it seems to me that people on bikes have started to believe
- |> they're pedestrians. They ride past me on the pavement and they don't
- |> have lights at night.
-
- And they cross lights at red, and, and, and... The thing that really
- pissed me off recently was a cyclist who jumped the red as I was
- setting out to cross the road on the cycle path, and complained at me
- for getting in her way.
-
- |> It must be months since I saw a bicycle at night with lights. Is this
- |> anyone else's experience?
-
- I never let my kids out at night on bikes without lights. This is
- interesting, since my son (at least) is larger than I. They moan
- about how no-one else bothers, but my reasoning is that I provide the
- technology (lights and batteries) - if they fail to recharge them,
- they should be penalised.
-
- |> I think *I'm* a pedestrian but then I haven't got a bike.
-
- When _I_ was a kid, I wasn't allowed out at night, even on foot,
- without a light.
-
- |> (The Subject: is a quote from an old jewish joke. You recognized it of course)
-
- Could have fooled me. Jews are subtler than one thinks, obviously :-)
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- Robin (come back John Drummond) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
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