SMIDSYd!

In news:[email hidden],

Peter Clinch said:

(I wasn't wearing a helmet and survived, so I guess I must be a
troll... ;-))

Official miracle.
The pope will confirm your sainthood shortly.
--

Martin Bulmer

Peter Clinch [email hidden] opined the following...

Quoted message said:

Actually, she didn't say Those Words, she said (after checking I was all
right and the Brom was undamaged) "I'm terribly sorry, it was completely
my fault, I was so busy looking for lights coming from the other
direction I didn't look back to see you", so it was very polite and I
think she was more upset than I was. I wasn't hurt, and nor was the
bike, very low speed glancing blow to the rear of the Brom, nothing
scratched.

Whenever I have an "incident", all I generally want is an apology. An
acknowledgement that they have screwed up is a good indication that
they'll learn from the experience.

Quoted message said:

But the moral is, even with good lamps showing and a *YELLOW!* jacket
with mucho reflectives, you still won't get seen if the driver doesn't
look. <sigh>

(I wasn't wearing a helmet and survived, so I guess I must be a troll...
;-))

But are your knees OK?

Jon

Peter Clinch said:

(I wasn't wearing a helmet and survived, so I guess I must be a troll...
;-))

By not wearing that helmet, according to Crook & Feikh, you caused a
cyclist in Manchester to have a head injury. You should be ashamed of
yourself ;-^)

Tony

Tony Raven <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch said:

(I wasn't wearing a helmet and survived, so I guess I must be a
troll... ;-))

By not wearing that helmet, according to Crook & Feikh, you caused a
cyclist in Manchester to have a head injury. You should be ashamed of
yourself ;-^)

G'day. The effects are wider reaching than that! I was wondering why,
even in non-cycling mode, I've been bumping my head more often recently.
I hold *you* responsible Peter! Perhaps it's governed by the inverse-
inverse squared law and the further away you are, the greater the effect.
If so, at least I'll be safer when I return to Edinburgh over Christmas
(a cold, dark Christmas, just the way it should be. Bugger this
"barbecues on the beach" nonsense.).

😉

Graeme

On 27/11/04 9:02 pm, in article [email hidden], "Peter

Clinch said:

Actually, she didn't say Those Words, she said (after checking I was all
right and the Brom was undamaged) "I'm terribly sorry, it was completely
my fault, I was so busy looking for lights coming from the other
direction I didn't look back to see you", so it was very polite and I
think she was more upset than I was. I wasn't hurt, and nor was the
bike, very low speed glancing blow to the rear of the Brom, nothing
scratched.

But the moral is, even with good lamps showing and a *YELLOW!* jacket
with mucho reflectives, you still won't get seen if the driver doesn't
look. <sigh>

(I wasn't wearing a helmet and survived, so I guess I must be a troll...

Where was that? Or were you just trying to get a big white taxi to work ;-)

...d

David Martin said:

Where was that? Or were you just trying to get a big white taxi to work ;-)

I was on my way to work... had to move a server Saturday evening, so I
was cycling up the main drive into Ninewells from the East Gate, and the
car in question was turning right onto the same road from one of the
side roads.

Pete.
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Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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