Doubling Up On Road

[mickle]

I believe that the suggestion was that motorists should not be excluded from using the road at the expense of the cyclist as they have paid to use it.

Pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders and people moving livestock have rights to use the roads.

Drivers of motor vehicles, however many hoops they are required to jump through (driving licence, MOT etc) and however much they spend (VED, insurance, alloys etc) never end up with rights, merely permission.

 

[VamP]

How would an estate agent phrase that?

"The panache and allure of the M-Series, with a more compact and bijou engine"

Tidy

 

[Bicycle]

That's the 2006 Summer special edition "The Dive". They tend to go for around 60/70 quid.

If I've inspired you on the Moomin front, Bicycle the Fazer mug (top tier, orange, to the right as you look) has been sold for 1800 Euros! Usually they go for a bit less than that though...

One day I will appear on the Antiques Roadshow, dressed as the Stinky...

Damn it!

You didn't bite on the car-comparison hook!!

I do like the mugs, though.

Meanwhile, all around us the thunder of a road-tax debate shakes the hills and chokes us with cordite fumes.

And in its midst the crack of the sniper's gun as some still engage with the well-hidden doubling-up issue.

If this thread were a car, it would be a 1978 M-B 350 SE with a touch too much rust around the bottoms of the windows:

Somehow worthy of some admiration, but hardly a classic in the true sense and getting a little tired now.

I'm imagining it is that ubiquitous metallic mid blue and with poorly fitted covers over non-leather seats.

 

[montyboy]

Damn it!

You didn't bite on the car-comparison hook!!

I do like the mugs, though.

Meanwhile, all around us the thunder of a road-tax debate shakes the hills and chokes us with cordite fumes.

And in its midst the crack of the sniper's gun as some still engage with the well-hidden doubling-up issue.

If this thread were a car, it would be a 1978 M-B 350 SE with a touch too much rust around the bottoms of the windows:

Somehow worthy of some admiration, but hardly a classic in the true sense and getting a little tired now.

I'm imagining it is that ubiquitous metallic mid blue and with poorly fitted covers over non-leather seats.

I was sure it was going to be metallic brown with chromed wheelarches.

 

[VamP]

Damn it!

You didn't bite on the car-comparison hook!!

I do like the mugs, though.

Meanwhile, all around us the thunder of a road-tax debate shakes the hills and chokes us with cordite fumes.

And in its midst the crack of the sniper's gun as some still engage with the well-hidden doubling-up issue.

If this thread were a car, it would be a 1978 M-B 350 SE with a touch too much rust around the bottoms of the windows:

Somehow worthy of some admiration, but hardly a classic in the true sense and getting a little tired now.

I'm imagining it is that ubiquitous metallic mid blue and with poorly fitted covers over non-leather seats.

I also like the mugs

On the thread/car analogy front, I am however thinking of an Austin Allegro...

 

[benb]

I believe that the suggestion was that motorists should not be excluded from using the road at the expense of the cyclist as they have paid to use it.

OK, that makes more sense. And I certainly wouldn't be in favour of closing roads willy-nilly just for a sportive.

 

[Bicycle]

Chapeau on your abililty to stick five adjectives in a row ahead of a verb though. That adds a wicked visual image of drooling spittle over your keyboard as you type.

VamP, in truth the adjective cluster preceded a gerund rather than a verb.

Had the gerund been a verb, the words qualifying it would have toi have been adverbs.

But is was not. It was a gerund and therefore, technically, a noun.

The phrase in question copied below, with added punctuation:


"arrogant, inconsiderate, militant, unnecessary, two-abreast cycling"

If that phrase were a car, it would be a 1977 Datsun 100A Cherry. A rusty one.

 

[Bicycle]

I was sure it was going to be metallic brown with chromed wheelarches.

Yes.

Yours is the better colour.

I'd forgotten about Mercedes-Benz Dogshit Brown.

You win.

 

[benb]

[QUOTE 1589201"]
And that's the misunderstanding.
[/quote]

Well if the argument was "we all pay for the roads so why are they closing them to traffic so they can run a sportive" that would be a coherent argument. And no-one except FC has suggested closing roads for sportives.

 

[Origamist]

I've now come to the conclusion that FC is not a troll, but a sock puppet for another CC user. Any guesses? Perhaps the mods could check the IP address to see if there are any matches, past or present

 

[montyboy]

[QUOTE 1589201"]
And that's the misunderstanding.
[/quote]


Why would one party be excluded from use, what would give the cyclist priorty?

 

[VamP]

VamP, in truth the adjective cluster preceded a gerund rather than a verb.

Had the gerund been a verb, the words qualifying it would have toi have been adverbs.

But is was not. It was a gerund and therefore, technically, a noun.

The phrase in question copied below, with added punctuation:


"arrogant, inconsiderate, militant, unnecessary, two-abreast cycling"

If that phrase were a car, it would be a 1977 Datsun 100A Cherry. A rusty one.

Nice catch, I was so keen to hit the Add Reply button that I didn't read. I actually meant to write noun rather than verb.

I had heard of a gerund previously, but assumed it was a Belgian snack, most frequently consumed at pre-Christmas cyclocross festivals near Gent.

Edit: forgot to say, nice choice of car analogy. I would add ''torched'' if I wasn't concerned about over-adjectivising. If you can say that. Not my first language, and all that...

 

[montyboy]

I've now come to the conclusion that FC is not a troll, but a sock puppet for another CC user. Any guesses? Perhaps the mods could check the IP address to see if there are any matches, past or present

Not another non conformist

 

[John the Monkey]

Do the demographics prove that?

Cyclists have a higher median income, iirc - survey[1] from a little while ago, I forget the source. I think it makes a degree of sense, given how pervasive motoring is as a form of utility transport, and cycling's marginalisation to being a pursuit of enthusiasts.

[1] Caveats around the samples being self selecting, more likely to be enthusisats &c apply, obv.

 

[montyboy]

VamP, in truth the adjective cluster preceded a gerund rather than a verb.

Had the gerund been a verb, the words qualifying it would have toi have been adverbs.

But is was not. It was a gerund and therefore, technically, a noun.

The phrase in question copied below, with added punctuation:


"arrogant, inconsiderate, militant, unnecessary, two-abreast cycling"

If that phrase were a car, it would be a 1977 Datsun 100A Cherry. A rusty one.

A mustard/yellow sort of colour I'm thinking.