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Keith G wrote:


**** bicycling - far too dangerous! ;-)


But yes, bicycles are seen as not safe by many ppl.


I believe that, in the UK, both cycling and horse-riding are
*statistically* more dangerous than motorcycling...??


But here we have many km of cycle paths well away from roads
so cycling is a real pleasure.


When I was a kid I used to live in a village just outside a town called
Stevenage (where I went to school, home of the afore-mentioned Vincents
and named "****te Hoalle" in the Doomsday Book) and took great delight
in flying round its revolutionary, new and extensive cycle path system
on a pretty zippy little 50cc moped (which was allowed) like this one:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/mybi...20Runabout.jpg

The hazards were the occasional walkers, busted bottles and the odd
breeze block that had been thrown from one of the many bridges (the
cycle track had many underpasses) but rate of progress through and
across the town was phenomenally quicker than by car!

See:

http://www.greatnorthway.org.uk/pages/guide02.html

for subtle clues...


I keep fit on a bicycle, on a motobike or in my car
I just get fat.


Trust me: You won't put on any weight chucking a quarter of a ton of
100+ bhp motorbike round the twisties in a *spririted* manner... :-)