Letters to the editor.

Started by Techno II, 23 October 2021, 02:13:49 PM

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steve_holmes_11

Dear Miss Fokker,

Never was nominative determinism better illustrated.

The Editor.

Techno II

Quote from: FierceKitty on 24 October 2021, 12:26:26 AM
Well, it was a good idea before it went TMP, Phil.

X_X  :'( :'( :'(

Cyclists are really well behaved around us, when they're bimbling around the countryside, especially as a lot of the roads are so narrow.
They'll pull in and wave you past....perhaps because I show them I'm not going to try and zoom past them.
I like to think that I show them consideration..and that seems to be returned .

I don't know how long the flashing rear light has been around for cyclists to use.....But that really makes then SO much more noticeable from a distance. Terrific safety feature.

Cheers - Phil. :)

Raider4

Quote from: Techno II on 24 October 2021, 06:17:38 AM
I don't know how long the flashing rear light has been around for cyclists to use.....But that really makes then SO much more noticeable from a distance. Terrific safety feature.

Flashing lights are great for daytime use. At night you want a steady light - makes it much easier for others to judge distances.

steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Raider4 on 24 October 2021, 08:19:15 AM
Flashing lights are great for daytime use. At night you want a steady light - makes it much easier for others to judge distances.

Quite right about distances.
The general practice when I last commuted by bike (2004) was to have two rear lights, one flashing and one steady.

With a steady light alone, it's difficult for a fast moving vehicle to distinguish a slow moving bike fomr stationary street furniture.
The flashing light does a great job of "Hey something here", but is harder to track until close up.

Last Hussar

Sir,

I write in relation to a previous correspondent.

While some cyclists are idiots, from a financial point of view they cost the government nothing in road use, hence no taxes. While some are menaces, they are covered by the law in any damage they do.

I would also point out he doesn't pay road tax, he pays Vehicle Excise Duty, a different concept.

Your

Walter Wall-Carpeting (retired)
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain why you are wrong.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

GNU PTerry

Orcs

Dear Editor,

In response the letter from Mr Wall-Carpeting, that while cyclist are covered by the law for any damage they may do, this will not recompense a person for the costs of that damage. Secondly as they are unregistered road users it is very hard to prove who they are after an accident should they choose to deny it was them. As I found out when one of them scraped my Range Rover last month in Kensington.

As to Vehicle Excise Duty, even the governments own website referring to the charge calls it a tax.

Ms S Loane-Ranger
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Techno II

Sir.

With all these references to these cycle fiends...... ;)
When was the last time there was a prosecution of someone being drunk in charge of a bicycle.

Or an equine.

Sincerely - MR Trellis of North Wales. (Please ignore any correspondence from my wife.)



Heedless Horseman

24 October 2021, 02:39:04 PM #22 Last Edit: 24 October 2021, 02:47:34 PM by Heedless Horseman
To All Who May Be  Concerned.
With regard to Bicyclists... whose conveyance is a benefit to fitness for the fight and our green and pleasant Land.
I concur that adequate lighting is essential for ALL such vehicles... those Dynamo things would be perfectly adequate, and 'more green', to use the term, than batteries.

I have been pleasantly  surprised by younglings who had the courtesy to ring their bell on approaching a pedestrian / dog walker. Such good manners is to be a credit to their handlers! Full Marks!  I find it incrediible that such devices are not a standard fitment to ALL such macines.

There are such bicyclists , whose desire for power and speed, precludes such common sense... on the Bridle Path/Footpath now designated, (Without , to mine own knowledge or consent!), as a 'cycleway', do not appear to have such concern for others. Should such cause injury to my large Dog or receive injury from him without  apology, such would possibly accompany his 'bike' well into a Hawthorn! Ha! to You Sir!

As a proud beneficiary of the 'Cycling Proficiency Test' in my, admittedly, long ago, youth... I personally regard such training to be a pre-requisite for the use of Bicycles upon the public roads...for younglings AND their hanlders. And backed up by legislation... re 'Provisional Driving License'.
Until  such time as an 'updated and enlarged' test should become available as Bicyclists become more experienced, the INSURANCE should be borne by the parents... and then transferred upon passing  a 'Full Cycling License', to the fledged Cyclist! May He / She enjoy the pleasures of the  open road... alongside Mororists!

General  D'Isgusted
(40 Yrs ago. I should have been an Angry Young Man... but wasn't.
Now... I am an Old B******! )  ;)

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Sir

I was driving on a poorly lit road this morning and thought the dark shape in front of me was a cyclist moving away from me, it was a runner in the roadway wearing dark gear with no lights. As to cyclists, electric scooter users and elderly in mobility chairs they make the pavements round here very dangerous. It is obvious that cyclists et al cannot read, Grange road is a no unpowered vehicle area, and pedestrian area covered in signs baring such. Totally ignored.

L.Cpl Jones (ret)
FOG IN CHANNEL - EUROPE CUT OFF
Lord Kermit of Birkenhead
Muppet of the year 2019, 2020 and 2021

Heedless Horseman

I know someone who thought that they nearly ran over Shearer when out running....
(40 Yrs ago. I should have been an Angry Young Man... but wasn't.
Now... I am an Old B******! )  ;)

Techno II

PAH !!....

That's nothing....

I nearly hit that nice Mr Richard Branson,,,,,His wife, child and mother, near the mother's home near Shamley Green (Wonersh/Guildford) over 40 years ago....True....
Though i wasn't that close to hitting them.

Cheers - Phil. :)

jimduncanuk

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 24 October 2021, 02:51:01 PM
I know someone who thought that they nearly ran over Shearer when out running....

Shearer who?
My Ego forbids a signature.

DecemDave

Sir,

Whilst my forefathers since the conquest have always lived by our family motto "Aquila non capit muscas",  I am plunged into the darkest despair to see this once great institution so conceived and so dedicated to the admiration of small but perfectly formed wargame miniatures has been hijacked by fanatical minorities which favour or disfavour the use of two wheeled perambulation.   The world may little note, nor long remember what we write here, but surely we must heed the wise words of Horace that "Omnes una manet nox" .   Whilst I, myself may prefer my Qashqai for the transportation of said little folk to balancing really useful boxes across the handle bars of my (t)rusty velocipede this should not lead me to castigate others for their choices.  

Where Sir?, where? is the leadership to put us back to genuine discussion on, for example the merits of shallower bases to represent well armoured troops fighting in close order? Or indeed, the inexplicable dearth of poses of kneeling firing figures in Czapkas.

I suggest that this forum be shortly taken down for maintenance until the panic induced in these quarrelsome pests brings them back to the one true lane path.  

Your servant  

Captain Decem "Naseby" de Braose

paulr

Lord Lensman of Wellington
2018 Painting Competition - 1 x Runner-Up!
2022 Painting Competition - 1 x Runner-Up!
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pierre the shy

Quote from: paulr on 24 October 2021, 10:32:14 PM
Well said Captain
+1 from me.....in the middle of writing up a serious battle report right now actually  O:-)
"Welcome back to the fight...this time I know our side will win"