Bizarre allohistorical speculation

[mrtwisties]

You make it sound easy to cover 150km over rough-terrain, before midday too eh?? I bet you've never done it, and I would like to see you try!

Mid-morning, I said. But you're right, not over rough terrain, I'm a road cyclist.

The Freedom Challenge racers travel something like 2500 km cross country in 16 days. That's not too bad / totally incredible.

[mrtwisties]

[OT]It is difficult to share the road, Horst. Cyclists can't hug the kerb for fear of getting "doored" by someone getting out of a parked car, and as a motorist I know how frustrating that is. But I trust you're not one of those loonies who swerves in close to cyclists to give them a bit of a scare. There are a lot of them out there, and as far I'm concerned they all ought to be charged with attempted manslaughter (which isn't an actual crime per se, but you get what I'm saying, right?).[/OT]

[Horst Nordfink]

Most of the roads where I live don't have cars parked alongside them, they are country roads, so there is no chance of a car door opening on them. But that is by the by.

Of course I try to avoid the cyclists, but most of the time there is only so much space you can give them with cars coming the other way.

I think that cyclists should pay road tax and insurance if they want to drive on the roads like motorists. My car was struck by a cyclist once, unfortunately he was uninjured, but the wing of my car was damaged. I couldn't claim insurance from the foolish hippy and he refused to pay for his mistake.

[mrtwisties]

[Still Off Topic]Bikes were on the roads long before automobiles, and we'll still be there long after the oil runs out. Motorists only have to pay road taxes because they cause significant wear and tear on our roads.

I take your point about insurance, though, and I'm sorry about your car.[/SOT]