Re: Oh you little [censored].

Danny Colyer said:

Ouch, nasty. Have you reported it to the police? I doubt they'll do
anything.

Probably won't now, but hopefully they might if another similar incident
happens again.

Best of luck for getting yourself, bike & watch mended soon, Bob.

~PB

Danny Colyer said:

Ouch, nasty. Have you reported it to the police?

No, I didn't. I realise some in the group will disagree with that, but
then some of you will also have noticed from previous postings of mine
how cynical I am of our police service and justice system.

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I doubt they'll do anything

Me too, and when it's an incident like this I'd just rather not
involve myself in that sorry parody.

To try and avoid being unfair though, what really could they achieve?
Even if they made an effort they've bugger all chance of finding who
did it. Additionally, if it becomes known that their booby trap caught
a victim it'll certainly give them a snigger and might even encourage
them to try again, and I don't want either of those.

If it had been something altogether more sinister, like your fishing
line experience, I'd have felt obliged to report it, for others sake.

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Ouch again. At least when the fishing line it was only me that got
damaged, and I heal.

I'm with you there, I'd much rather sacrifice some skin and bone than
expensive hardware.

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1. Get better lights, "be seen" LEDs are not enough when entering
enemy territory.

This bit dents my sympathy somewhat. It might be better not to mention
it if you go to the press. Important lesson learnt, I think.

Yes, fair point. I know I could have avoided it with better lighting
and more deliberate concentration on my part, but I wasn't being
reckless in anyway. I was using a CatEye EL200 at the time, it's good
at announcing my presence to others and it's sufficient for me to see
road and path borders on a dark night. I haven't ever needed more than
that. Going to have to rethink that now of course.

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Are you a CTC member? If so, enter the Lumicycle competition at
<URL:http://www.lumicycle.com/ctc/>

I'm not yet, intend to become one before too long. Was waiting until
the current grumblings about membership administration died down
before sending off my cheque. I see I have until the end of December
to join and have a bash at the Lumi's, thx, I'll get my name in 🙂

"Bob"
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Pete Biggs said:

Best of luck for getting yourself, bike & watch mended soon, Bob.

Thank you Pete, much appreciated. I'm already feeling much happier
about the bike. I sorted it properly and was really surprised how much
it lifted my malaise, to have it running sweetly again. It's
therapeutic too, the clinking of spanners.

Unfortunately I'm feeling sick as dog right now. I think this is
either nasty case of concussion caused by the crash (strange though,
because I definitely didn't hit my head) or I've come down with
something like labyrinthitis.

I keep getting bouts of really severe vision and balance distortion,
accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It's serious enough that I rang my
doctors surgery out of hours for only the second time in my life. What
jolly japes!

These things come in three's so I'm afraid to go outside now for fear
of someone dropping a piano on me. 🙂

"Bob"
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