blazed said:
Hiya, blazed! Sorry I'm late to this thread, but I've just got back from the Netherlands. They're quite keen on cycling over there. So much so that cyclists are given priority over cars! Can you imagine? Still, that's foreigners for you!
5 years and still only 3 points for a ban. Chapeau, my friend, chapeau! And cycling a few weeks as well. With that sort of experience its difficult to know whether to join Jenson Button behind the wheel of next year's Brawn F1 car, or wait by the phone for Bradley to call you up for super-domestique duties for next year's TdF.
So, you hate people cycling in the middle of the road? It doesn't bother me personally, but we've all got our dislikes. For example, I can't stand cheese. But you don't find me attempting to stab the woman behind the dairy counter in Sainsbury's, or planting explosive devices in tubs of Laughing Cow, do you?
Now blazers, to my point. The last time I checked, the death penalty in this country was generally considered as abolished in 1969. Even then, there was the formality of a trial before the guilty bastard was strung up. So, even if riding in the middle of the road was a serious crime, rather than the road position taken by most -experienced- cyclists and recommended by this country's key cycling text, it doesn't really give that lorry 'driver' the right to act as judge, jury and executioner, does it?
Please keep posting Mr b, because I think we're going to have a wizard time with you.
, although if I did slip on a white line in Holland, the road maintenance operative responsible would probably be dragged from his home and flogged.
