Anti-social vehicle - test case

The RTA states 'to such an extent as to be incable of having proper control of a bicycle'.

OK, so I get a folding bike and bring it into the house dropping dirt everywhere after each trip?

My lips would crack when it's cold and I'd be soaked when it rains!

Which is either wrong, or your memory is.

I dismantled my gearbox and laid everything out on newspaper in the order of disassembly. I came in the following evening to find that Dad had "helpfully" put the whole lot in one large pot of paraffin to get them clean...

I did manage to reassemble it OK, though. No bits left over, anyway, and it did run afterwards.

Guy

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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Well that is at odds with my experience and Transport Trends. Does the PSI give their original source?

s/fridge/freezer/ - it was in the garage ;-)

For an example of low cost motoring Chapman style see:

Guy

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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

The area taken up by a folded Brommie is around the size of a tabloid newspaper, closed. Doormat sized or less.

Me, I park my bike in the kitchen. On the small number of days when it actually rains enough for the bike to get significantly wet I bung a couple of old terry nappies on the floor underneath it to catch the drips.

I've never suffered cracked lips in the cold, and it only rains an average of about 20 days per year in commuting time, plus wearing modern waterproofs you don't really get wet either.

I have been using a bike for daily transport for some years and I can only recall one journey which was genuinely unpleasant, and that was because I got a puncture in the snow and didn't have the sense to go back half a mile to my nice warm office to fix it.

Guy

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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Doesn't matter, it'll still be under the fridge.

Tony

You know. I think I came across those pics of your banger long before I came to UKRC.

I cannot think how or why though.

In the years just before 2001, cycling time was rising faster than driving time, and fatalites falling faster, so it could have been more than 3 times.

Not according to Transport Trends. Does he give any supporting figures?

UK cyclist risk is similar to European average. The only country where cyclists are quoted to be much safer than drivers is France, which has above average driver risk.

Probably, but no such comparisons were given.

Death rates are plummetting in France. IIRC last year's total was 5000, down from around 7 or 8000 3 or 4 years ago.

A

And what would your mother say!?

Either that or you went to Southampton Uni in the late 80's...

Guy

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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Which bit is wrong? Hillman & Whitelegg being the source? I can probably go and find it if I can be bothered.

Guy

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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Impossible. They have introduced Killer Speed Cameras, which increase fatality rates by a third [(c) Psmith's Believe It Or Not].

Guy

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88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Stuffed snipped-for-privacy@theworld.com opined the following...

"How old are you? Why do you still live with us? When are you going to get your own house?"

Jon

Given the current level of house prices, probably "when I inherit this one"

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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." (WilliamPitt, 1783)

You're not acquainted with Peter I take it?

So far his mother is an accomplice to driving on possibly illegal tyres. Actually, she's the reason he's driving on suspect tyres it seems. Try looking his posts up on uk.r.c.m for a laugh/ horror story ;)

So basically the same as "under the influence of drink or drugs" then.