FOR ALL TO READ!!

I was reading the original thread, The Terry Collins response seemed to of had a sentence snipped out of it when it appeared on cycling forums.

The thread on aus.bicycle contained the full posting. I am puzzled, was it pulled by the mods on CF for the sake of curtailing a flamewar?

Reading it again in context was extremely distressing. I can understand Hammers anger. Unfortunately it's not the first time I've read stuff here of people wishing harm upon each other. (ie: aus.cars trolls etc)

peace.

Hammer said:

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Quoted message said:

I liked the original reply about having heat seeker missiles with the head up display glasses.
Those babies always home in on hot air from over sized mouths.

Yours Sincerely,

Hammer

Dear Mr Tool

any as there are very few people with less active brain cells than yourself. Keep hoping, you might
get lucky.

I will now proceed to give you some very good reasons why surfing the internet with a HUD whilst
riding a bicycle is not a good idea.

1) Increased chances of injuring yourself. Did you take in the post about the rider that crashed the
kerb at Glenelg and broke his leg? Obviously if you are giving your attention to an internet
page, you will not see obstacles in time to take preventative action and you are going to run
into something and hopefully only hurt yourself. Should the rest of us have to pay increased
health/medical insurance because of morons who can not pay attention to where they are going?

2) Increased danger to pedestrians. Whether you like it or not, we are stuck using a lot of the same
paths as pedestrians. Riding around with your head into a HUD surfing the net is a sure fired way
to knock a few of these pedestrians down. Pedestrians have clout compared to bicyclists. Start
knocking them down and you will find bicyclist being banned from shared facilties. You will also
find them starting to sue you for damages, which is going to put bicycle insurance rates up.

3) Increased chance of all bicyclists becoming road kill. Isn't it bad enough that enough bicycle
riders get murdered by motor vehicle drivers, without you giving them another reason to not be
held responsible? So you want to hand them another excuse "but your Honor, he had a HUD and was
surfing the internet, so obviously he wasn't paying attention to his surrounds and greatly
contributed to his own injuries {even if I was looking at my balls trying to get a number out of
my mobile telephone)".

The current methods of using HUDs has obviously escaped your brain. They are good for simple clear
indicators. So yes, they might be good for the "team director" (?) to send instruction to Fred to
drop off the lead and to let everyone know what speed he wants them to maintain. However, iIf the
technology can be developed to give good, consistent, reliable mobile communications, it will most
likely be used in the reverse direction to allow each rider and to be monitored (HB, BP, speed,
cadence, gear, power, etc).

4) Microwave background radiation. Lets go back to the walkway at Glenelg, or any popular walkway
and imagine half those people with their own personal HUD surfing the internet. That place is
going to be awash with electromagnetic radiation as each is going to require their own patch of
frequency to give them their own fast pipeline to surf the internet. That should do wonders for
your fertility.

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Quoted message said:

This unnecessary reply swells me with anger with the way you have used the taking of someone
else's life and paralleled it against the taking of my own. How disrespectful to those relatives
and friends of the deceased.

Get real. The world is a brutal place. How many people do you think die each day? Of course, you
only beat your breast over the politically correct ones, or is the "shock horro" ones from the
newspaper, when thousands of others are ignored.

Quoted message said:

How disrespectful to the cycling community and internet community as a hole!

Community! You obviously have a NIMBY attitude to community.

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Quoted message said:

You really think you can go on in this forum under that name with any credibility to it.

Do I care, No.

Quoted message said:

I don't ever wont an apology from you, but you owe an apology to those who have read the original
text and this article!! How dare morons like your self threaten free and creative thought.

So, have you written your letter against the IP part of the US-Australian "Free" Trade agreement
yet? And I don't think there was anything creative about your post. It was boringly predicatable.

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Quoted message said:

So Terry. Think about this. Do you ever see a time when people will be walking and riding while
surfing the net. Because mate, that's a time you don't belong too!

You are definitely correct there. The day I am so bored by going for a bicycle ride that I have to
be plugged into and surfing the internet whilst doing it, then I will be looking around for the
pistol to end my life. Australia ia a beautful place and there is so much of it I am still to see,
preferrably from the back of a bicycle.

However, it may interest you to know that there are now bicycles throughout the world that are
plugged into the internet whenever they go out for a ride.

Be careful, you may get what you wish for.

this is very self indulgent, grave digging my response to an ancient thread, but;
http://www.cyclingforums.com/showthread.php?postid=192898#post192898

chill out guys.:o

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:20:06 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:

Heh, and I'll this time I thought it was a verb 😉

-kt