Here we go again!

Nothing more entertaining at moaning at cyclists. If not that then
moaning at the potholes and congestion caused by other people (not
motorists of course!).
In the interests of balance (and cheap laughs) online mag has decided
to have their own moaning petrolhead now at
www.citycycling.co.uk/issue8page2.html.

cheers
David

Simon Mason said:

Hands up who wears neoprene rubber shorts!

They last much longer than lycra you know.

Simon Mason said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.
I actually enjoyed this piece after a while though, it seems London
cyclists are getting right up his hooter and he tries to convince
himself that he is enjoying the pleasurable experience of driving in
London - yeah right!
Hands up who wears neoprene rubber shorts!

Sorry for the rubbish layout, I had to scan it in two bits.

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zmailos.htm

I almost hit a cyclist today!

He was cycling the wrong way along the road past a building site. a van
stared to reverse out of the site, pedestrian on the pavement having stopped
to let van out, van stopped encroaching slightly onto road and then stopped
to let me pass. Cyclist (on wrong side of road) continued past pedestrian,
saw van too late and swerved directly into my path. I'd seen him, the van,
the pedestrian and the impending "accident". Cyclist wobbled round the van
between me and the kerb and carried on on the wrong side of the road.

It did flick through my mind whether I should help him in his obvious quest
for an entry in the Darwin awards, but had better things to do with my time.

pk

"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.
I actually enjoyed this piece after a while though, it seems London

cyclists

Quoted message said:

are getting right up his hooter and he tries to convince himself that he

is

Quoted message said:

enjoying the pleasurable experience of driving in London - yeah right!

Hands up who wears neoprene rubber shorts!

Sorry for the rubbish layout, I had to scan it in two bits.

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zmailos.htm

The author has too much time on his hands, the result of sitting in a
gridlocked car.

--
Pete
http:[email hidden]/Stuff

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.
I actually enjoyed this piece after a while though, it seems London cyclists
are getting right up his hooter and he tries to convince himself that he is
enjoying the pleasurable experience of driving in London - yeah right!

Hands up who wears neoprene rubber shorts!

Sorry for the rubbish layout, I had to scan it in two bits.

He doesn't seem to have had an original thought in a long time. I
wonder if he's been dining with Clarkson recently.

--

Hywel
http://kibo.org.uk/

"davek" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Simon Mason said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.

I got as far as the byline and stopped reading. He's just another one of
those boring media [censored] with a misguided view of the worth of his
opinions. I've read enough of his [censored] in the past to know I won't give a
fig for anything he has to say on /any/ subject, even the ones on which he
is supposedly an expert.

I laughed when he said blokes my age should wear nothing but Paul Smith (no
not *that* Paul Smith) suits or else look stupid. What working class bloke
is going to walk around Hull in a 3 piece suit for heavens sake?

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Simon Mason said:

I laughed when he said blokes my age should wear nothing but Paul
Smith (no not *that* Paul Smith) suits or else look stupid. What
working class bloke is going to walk around Hull in a 3 piece suit
for heavens sake?

Interesting societal comment there: My uncle spent most of the 1920/30's
unemployed in Liverpool. Every day he dressed in 3 piece suit, tie and
hat.... and kept body and soul together hustling in the snooker halls..

pk

Hywel Jenkins said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.
I actually enjoyed this piece after a while though, it seems London cyclists
are getting right up his hooter and he tries to convince himself that he is
enjoying the pleasurable experience of driving in London - yeah right!

Hands up who wears neoprene rubber shorts!

Sorry for the rubbish layout, I had to scan it in two bits.

He doesn't seem to have had an original thought in a long time. I
wonder if he's been dining with Clarkson recently.

Regardless of his dining habits, he's certainly overtaken Clarkson in the
Meeja [censored] stakes. Consider Exhibit A:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297848755/qid=1140473761/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-2027761-8451125

Deary, deary me.

Incidentally, I wonder if Jones ever got to the end of the Third Policeman,
and its attendant sympathetic portrait of a man/bicycle love, quite outside
the confines of Sgt Pluck's Atomic Theory.

Regards,

-david

David Nutter said:

Regardless of his dining habits, he's certainly overtaken Clarkson in
the Meeja [censored] stakes. Consider Exhibit A:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297848755/qid=1140473761/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-2027761-8451125

Deary, deary me.

From the sounds of it we should write and tell him about all the famous
people who ride bicycles and he'll be a convert overnight.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

From the sounds of it we should write and tell him about all the famous
people who ride bicycles and he'll be a convert overnight.

He should know - a few pages before his tripe there was double page spread
featuring "A listers" and their Cannondale MTBs.

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Simon Mason said:

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

From the sounds of it we should write and tell him about all the famous
people who ride bicycles and he'll be a convert overnight.

He should know - a few pages before his tripe there was double page spread
featuring "A listers" and their Cannondale MTBs.

Do you have a scan of it? I feel the gist of a letter coming on about
those people he's complaining about being the A-listers he aspires to
associate with but until he learns to abandon his car and don neoprene
(sic) he will never move in their circles.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Been a bit about cycling celebs/known people/A-listers here
http://bikereader.com/forum/index.php?topic=9490.0

Not all A list of course... Some cycle for speed, others for effect and
a photo opportunity.
Those ones only cycle whilst being escorted by their bodyguards in a
Humvee.

Alexei Sayle, Eric Clapton, Jarvis Cocker, Bono, Sandi Toksvig, Jon
Snow, Robin Williams, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Not forgetting Boris Johnson of course - he just needs escort in
Liverpool

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Simon Mason) said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.

There's an egregious typo at the end where '[censored]' has been accidentally
typed up as 'editor'.

Of course he uses the illegal habits of some London cyclists to justify
his drivel.

Terry said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Simon Mason) said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.

There's an egregious typo at the end where '[censored]' has been accidentally
typed up as 'editor'.

Of course he uses the illegal habits of some London cyclists to justify
his drivel.

He also claims that paying road tax[1] gives him the right to use the
road. I pay as much road tax, insurance etc as him. As for petrol tax,
you don't have to use petrol/fuel to use your car on the road - it just
gets to be hard work pushing it. You pay for your convenience, not for
any right.

If MVO's do own the road[2], it was a bl**dy stupid idea to build them
on rights of way..

...d

[1] or similar vernacular descriptions for VED.
[2] Which they do, in common with non-MVO's

In article <[email hidden]>,

(David Martin) said:

Terry said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Simon Mason) said:

In a style mag from yesterday's Mail on Sunday, the usual lycra lout
diatribe.

There's an egregious typo at the end where '[censored]' has been
accidentally typed up as 'editor'.

Of course he uses the illegal habits of some London cyclists to
justify his drivel.

He also claims that paying road tax[1] gives him the right to use the
road. I pay as much road tax, insurance etc as him. As for petrol tax,
you don't have to use petrol/fuel to use your car on the road - it just
gets to be hard work pushing it. You pay for your convenience, not for
any right.

If MVO's do own the road[2], it was a bl**dy stupid idea to build them
on rights of way..

..d

[1] or similar vernacular descriptions for VED.
[2] Which they do, in common with non-MVO's

Clueless all over then. It's a sad fact of life that the London media
seems to be constructed to provide a comfortable living for our more
witless brethren.