Posts by Joe Wylie
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Depending on how you read a Herald headline from last Saturday, they were going to try a radical approach with something called a scoring machine. Sadly it wasn't an ingenious plan to attempt a rescue with some piece of mining equipment, or a hitherto unheard of robot.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Oh, wait, you said dyke.
With a beard, even. Donald Dyke?
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Scott A,
. . . did I really hear that someone in Parliament asked John Key why New Zealand’s mine standards weren’t up to Australian standards, such as including oxygen supplies?
Don't think anyone tried to make an issue of it in Parliament. Perhaps this is what you're referring to.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Last night, while innocently wheeling my bike along the footpath in fully legal pedestrian mode, a slack-jawed yokel in a passing car called out "Heard of a car?"
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And it’s the latter I see from other cyclists every day. Grown men riding on the footpath.
Wasn't me. While I've just got in from a fairly lengthy trip, much of it on the footpath, I'm not a cyclist. I just happen to ride a bike.
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We could use a few of these signs around the place.
BIKERS MUST YEILD TO PEDESTRIANS AT ALL TIMES – PLEASE GO SLOWIn situ that sign looks pretty good. There are a lot of designated shared paths here in Chch that seem to work pretty well, but there are occasional stories of people on bikes behaving like the worst kind of driver, i.e. knocking over children and then insisting that it was the child's fault.
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On the footpath, the cyclist is the fastest and most dangerous thing around. It may increase their safety, but it often decreases everyone else’s, which isn’t really a net gain.
Not when I'm doing it, as I'm not very fast. And I'm constantly on and off the footpath for all kinds of obstacles and reasons. As long as I get away with it I'll do it. I'm not trying to justify anything, just describing how it is when one must adapt to raw necessity.
For the most part people are surprisingly good about it, they'll even apologise for being in the way, That's my cue to say that I shouldn't really be there. As I'm probably taking advantage of a general ignorance of the law that might not be a good idea, but it does rather seem to tickle people's sense of magnanimity.
BTW, in order to demonstrate his willingness to impartially enforce Council by-laws, back in the early 1900s the Mayor of Levin personally busted his own wife for riding on the footpath.
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Kitt McGregor,
Yes.
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Matthew gives statistics that show cyclists don’t even cause their own deaths.
They’re almost perfect then – except for an ability to discuss the issue without getting emotion involved.Have a nice weekend people. Oh!, and happy cycling.
“everyone else” – I used to use that with my parents as a teen.
Nice to know that you've kicked that last one. Once you're over the passive aggression on stilts thing you'll be quite the role model.
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How dare those freeloading non-road-user-charge-paying primary schoolkids presume to bike to school on the same roads that are the natural domain of Bryan’s scrotum-tightening steel monsters.