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  1. I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?
    Mike Sales

  2. Mike Sales said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?

    Rolling while cycling is dangerous in my experience. I'm surprised that
    your cigarette didn't go out. Did your helmet stay on?

    Was it a barrel roll or a victory roll?

  3. Mike Sales said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?

    Yes. Smoking can seriously damage your health.

  4. Squashme said:
    Quoted message said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?

    Rolling while cycling is dangerous in my experience. I'm surprised that
    your cigarette didn't go out. Did your helmet stay on?

    Sorry, I forgot to mention the helmet which I didn't have.

    Mike Sales

  5. Mike Sales said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?

    There will be 4 schools of thought here:
    1: No problem at all, hold a can of cider with 2 spare fingers, and use
    you mobile with the other hand - completely safe.
    2: Doing anything other than watching the road ahead is dangerous.
    3: If you had a helmet on while rolling a [censored], you are quite safe.
    4: If you had a helmet on while rolling a [censored], then it is quite safe, so
    long as you take the helmet off first.

    Alan.
    --
    To reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'.

  6. On 09/10/2006 21:04, Tom Crispin said,

    Quoted message said:

    Yes. Smoking can seriously damage your health.

    No, no, no. According to [censored] packets I see lying around, SMOKING KILLS.
    Well, I suppose that does count as seriously damaging health!

    --
    Paul Boyd
    http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

  7. 9 Oct 2006 20:55 Mike Sales said:


    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?

    I thought most folk smoked after they'd had a roll - but in any case
    this is a feat worthy of note. I would expect the main danger to be
    forgetting one was on a bike and rolling over to go to sleep.

    --
    Tim Forcer [email hidden]
    The University of Southampton, UK

    The University is not responsible for my opinions

  8. in message <[email hidden]>, Mike Sales

    (') said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?
    Mike Sales

    I have taken off a waterproof, rolled it up into a neat ball, and stuffed
    it into my back pocket, all whilst cycling. I imagine most of us have. Is
    this dangerous?

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  9. Simon Brooke said:

    in message <[email hidden]>, Mike

    Sales (') said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this
    dangerous? Mike Sales

    I have taken off a waterproof, rolled it up into a neat ball, and
    stuffed it into my back pocket, all whilst cycling. I imagine most of
    us have. Is this dangerous?

    I rode up Streatley Hill on Saturday with my arms folded. I imagine this
    rates only slightly lower than North Korea's possession of nyookular weapons
    in the Dangerous Stakes.

    --
    Dave Larrington
    <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
    And then there was light and He thought it was good, so He threw
    the receipt away.

  10. Mike Sales said:

    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?
    Mike Sales


    I have it on good authority (a policeman) that it is dangerous and very
    very silly.
    The teenager that I was then thought that it was very cool and clever.

    --
    Roger Thorpe

    My email address is spamtrapped. You can work it out!

  11. Simon Brooke said:

    I have taken off a waterproof, rolled it up into a neat ball, and stuffed
    it into my back pocket, all whilst cycling. I imagine most of us have. Is
    this dangerous?

    Some Years Ago a grizzled old clubman related a story that a keen member
    of the Constabulary had summonsed Reg Harris[1] for cycling "no-hands".
    The charge was that Mr Harris was not in proper control of his bicycle.
    The story went on to say that Reg appeared in court and performed a
    track-stand during which he removed his hands from the bars, thus
    demonstrating that he was in full control of his bicycle.

    This has a definite whiff of myth about it, but I was wondering if
    anyone else had heard the story.

    Mike

    [1] For the benefit of the folks round here who are even younger than
    me, Reg Harris was World Professional Sprint Champion in the early
    1950s. He made a comeback and won the British National Sprint
    Championship in 1974.

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    I have rolled and smoked a cigarette whilst cycling. Is this dangerous?
    Mike Sales

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